10-26-2017, 10:06 AM
So, Rich Lowry (editor at The National Review) wrote an opinion piece on Politico. In this piece, he talks about how the events with Sen. Flake point to a shift in the GOP to Trumpism being the mainstream, now. Rich is notoriously anti-Trump, but he is conservative. This is the man with whom Paul Ryan reminisced about shared dreams of slashing Medicaid. Rich's position is clear on this, but I'm curious what some of the GOP stalwarts and the more conservative minded on the board think about this rise of Trumpism to be what the GOP stands for. We can talk about the image of the man if you'd like, but more importantly I'm interested in the abandonment of conservative GOP principles held onto for so long. We'd seen a slide away from some of the more conservative elements for a while, and it is now culminating in what we see today. I am genuinely curious about the conservative view of this shift.
