Sunday, December 10, 2017

The GOP Is Rotting - Conservative David Brooks

The rot afflicting the current G.O.P. (as led by Movement Conservatives and Trump) is comprehensive — moral, intellectual, political and reputational. More and more former Republicans wake up every day and realize: "I’m homeless. I’m politically homeless.”

The Republican Party is doing harm to causes it purports to serve. If Republicans accept Roy Moore as a United States senator, they may, for a couple years, have one more vote for a justice or a tax cut, but they will have made their party loathsome for an entire generation.

The pro-life cause will be forever associated with moral hypocrisy on an epic scale. The word “evangelical” is already being discredited for an entire generation. More and more people look at the Trump-Moore G.O.P. and they are repulsed, maybe forever.

The full article is available here