by Ryan C. Mahoney, opinion contributor - 11/04/24 10:00 AM ET
... The GOP has faced an identity crisis and undergone a dark transformation ever since Trump descended that escalator in 2015. I witnessed it firsthand. I spent nearly a decade at the Republican National Committee, where I ultimately served as communications director and senior advisor during Trump’s first three years in office. By the time I left the RNC, few people had served longer.
When I left, Trump had already torn down the party and rebuilt it in his own deeply flawed image. It has only gotten worse since then. Trump has reshaped the GOP around his erratic contradictions and inconsistencies — privately unsettling many Republicans, even as he remains the party’s standard-bearer.
This new GOP is held hostage by a man whose actions — like repeatedly calling to prosecute or use the military against his political opponents — are the antithesis of traditional Republican or American values. Loyalty to Trump has become the party’s highest priority, even at the expense of democracy.
Each day brings new examples of dangerous rhetoric and bizarre behavior. He rails against the “fake news media” while blatantly disregarding facts to push whatever narrative serves his ambitions — such as his xenophobic lies about immigrants eating pets ...
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4966945-republicans-can-save-our-country-and-our-party-by-voting-for-harris/
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