Maybe we all knew it would happen but didn’t want to admit it, and now it seems as though the tough year for the Republican Party just got tougher.
Donald Trump arrived in the GOP like a wrecking ball on steroids, and he brought with him a secret weapon, the silent majority and heavily conservative piece of the American puzzle in the MAGA movement. Now, with Trump not being the head honcho, for the time being, the old guard of the Republican Party is looking for a place to call their own.
A contingent of former Republican officials are in talks to form a political party that would break away from supporters of former President Trump, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
More than 120 people were on a call on the matter on Friday, including former government employees who worked under the Trump administration, the Reagan administration and both Bush White Houses as well as former GOP members of Congress.
A familiar anti-Trump voice can be heard as well.
Evan McMullin, former chief policy director for the House Republican Conference, told Reuters that he co-hosted the call with former officials who fear a large faction of the party is unwilling to stand up to Trump.
“Large portions of the Republican Party are radicalizing and threatening American democracy,” McMullin, who ran an anti-Trump independent presidential campaign in 2016, told Reuters. “The party needs to recommit to truth, reason and founding ideals or there clearly needs to be something new.”
Over the last several years it was believed that the Democratic Party would be the first to crumble, at least officially, given the heavy radical presence now entrenched on the left side of the aisle.
