He has remade the GOP in his own image and likeness. The GOP base supports him with unswerving and unprecedented loyalty. In Republican primaries, Trump’s loyalists torpedo his critics and thereby silence would-be GOP opposition. As long as Trump retains the support of his base — the sole aim of his numerous rallies — he can hold our legislative representatives hostage and remain head of the Republican Party.
Has any politician ever so thoroughly transformed a major political party within so brief a time? Should this party now be rebranded as the “Trumpublican Party”?
Recently, Trump’s faithful followers primary-torpedoed the “disloyal” South Carolina Rep.