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markodochartaigh

(4,114 posts)

3. And the Republicans knew what they were doing.

Reply to kacekwl (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 15, 2025, 09:27 PM

Sep 15

They were going to have a brokered convention to choose another candidate in 2015. And a number of their leaders refused to support Trump. They knew that if they put an authoritarian Strong Leader who was not committed to democracy at the head of their party they were endangering democracy. But the Republican party put party before country.