Conservative leaders are divided over the next steps Republicans should take following the midterm elections, where the party’s performance was below expectations. Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri tweeted “the old party is dead,” and blamed the “Washington establishment” for the GOP’s midterm results in an interview with RealClearPolitics. In a Nov. 18 op-ed for the Washington Post, Sen. Hawley made the case for why the GOP “must listen to working people” to rebuild itself. In particular, Sen. Hawley emphasized how for decades the party “cut taxes on the big corporations and talked about changing Social Security and Medicare” and “supported ruinous trade policies” with China. Sen. Hawley believes Republicans “must place working Americans at its heart and take them as they are, rather than treating them as resources to be exploited or engineered away.

Source: Washington Post November 24, 2022 18:23 UTC