Elected Republicans bowing to Trump and Greene, he says, "are feeding the beast" of the growing party faction drawn to extremist beliefs and tactics. The share of Republican voters who express support for the use of force to advance their political goals in general is considerably larger. "Trump and Trumpism is now a runaway train that is not going to be easily derailed within the Republican Party," he says. And that's where we are already at in the Republican Party, and that's what that polling data suggests." The growing racial and religious diversity that triggers the retreat from democratic values among a growing number of GOP voters will only accelerate in the next decade.

Source: The Nation February 14, 2021 19:04 UTC