Article content continuedIf there’s going to be a Republican party in the United States, if we are going to put the centre-right back on any kind of competitive footing, we need to turn the page on Donald Trump. It is the most corrupt administration in history, and that has had an impact on the Republican party’s electoral chances. The Republican party is now dead or dying in every knowledge centre of the United States. Any place a new product is invented, any place a song is written, any place science is done, that is a place where the Republican party cannot compete. And one way leads from Trump towards the logic of what Trump began: a corrupt, authoritarian, post-democratic party, like those of Viktor Orban in Hungary and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey.

Source: National Post January 16, 2021 10:52 UTC