After Donald Trump was convicted final week in his hush-money trial, Republican leaders wasted no time in rallying behind him. There was no probability the Republican Occasion was going to switch Trump as their nominee at this level. Trump has basically taken over the G.O.P.; his daughter-in-law is even co-chair of the Republican Nationwide Committee.
How did the Republican Occasion get so weak that it may fall sufferer to a hostile takeover?
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Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld are the authors of “The Hole Events: The Many Pasts and Disordered Current of American Occasion Politics,” which traces how each main political events have been “hollowed out” over the a long time, remodeling once-powerful gatekeeping establishments into mere vessels for the ideologies of particular candidates. And so they argue that this modification has been perilous for our democracy.
On this dialog, we talk about how the ability of the events has been progressively chipped away; why the Republican Occasion grew to become much less ideological and extra geared round battle; the deserves of a stronger get together system; and extra.
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