Is the GOP Worth Saving?
Right now, many conservatives are reacting to the #NeverTrump movement by pointing to the horrors of Hillary Clinton and urging conservatives to avert their eyes from Trump’s constant parade of horribles. Join together as Republicans to beat Horrible Hillary, they say, or lose the Supreme Court for a generation.
.. Trump is surging, in large part, because the standard pro-business message of the GOP hasn’t resonated with voters and nobody seems to give a darn.
.. The really grave fissure in the GOP, and the one that has catapulted Trump to power, is the chasm that has emerged between Chamber of Commerce Republicans and the rest of us.
.. And today, as history marches on, Chamber of Commerce business interests are doing the Left’s dirty work, leading the fight against conscience protections for gay-marriage dissenters. And the GOP is caving massively.
.. The old Reagan coalition is dead, destroyed not by social conservatives but by business interests and the GOP elites.