The End Of A Republican Party

Legend has it that after leveling Carthage in the Third Punic War, Roman army generals ordered that the city’s fields be sown with salt so that they’d lie fallow for years, Roman generals not being particularly well known for their benevolence in victory.


“I don’t think the Republican Party and the conservative movement are capable of reforming themselves in an incremental and gradual way, There’s going to be a disruption…”

Roy isn’t happy about this: He believes it means the Democrats will dominate national American politics for some time. But he also believes the Republican Party has lost its right to govern, because it is driven by white nationalism rather than a true commitment to equality for all Americans.

“Until the conservative movement can stand up and live by that principle, it will not have the moral authority to lead the country,” he told me. — Avik Roy

A Republican intellectual explains why the Republican Party is going to die

“The gravitational center of the Republican Party is white nationalism.”

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