A Former Republican Rejects His Party
From a reader:I’m from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
I am a former Republican.
Basically, I was a Republican my whole life until about 2018 where I couldn’t accept being a Republican anymore.
The Republican party now is nothing like it used to be.
Now, to be a good Republican, you have to basically I agree with whatever Donald Trump says.
Not any specific philosophy or anything like that It’s just if you want to be a good Republican you have to agree with Donald Trump.
And that’s just not the way it should be.
Right now It’s just like a cult of personality.
And that’s just totally against the Republican party that I grew up with.
I agree, but I would add that it’s worse.
Trump will be gone soon, but the extremist right-wing views won’t.
Until there is a mass revolt within the GOP, it will remain stuck as the party that rejects science, bans books, terminates women’s rights, hates the LGBTQ community, promotes fossil fuel consumption, treats immigrants with wanton cruelty, continues to ravage public education, lowers taxes on billionaires, moves to end Social Security and Medicare, supports the Russian invasion of Ukraine, forces Christianity into our lives, and centers itself around white supremacy.
In sum, anything that helps the common American or promotes decency around the world must be destroyed.
