Rethinking Republican Identity

FOR REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN ADAM Kinzinger of Illinois, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the reaction of some of his House colleagues to it, has crystallized much of what he finds troubling lately about the GOP. And those concerns, in turn, have him questioning his own party affiliation.

“Without correcting course, there will be a moment at which I say, ‘OK, I’m no longer a Republican,’” says Kinzinger, who revealed his misgivings during a candid conversation earlier this month for the Newsweek podcast Declassified, hosted by editor at large Naveed Jamali.

While the U.S. response to the war in Ukraine