Donald Trump: free-range chicken?

Anti-democratic interests would jump at the chance to corrupt a new party in the United States, should the Republican Party ever split.

President Donald Trump has had an often-strained relationship with officials and lawmakers in his Republican Party. Photograph by Joyce N. Boghosian courtesy of the White House

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

September 20, 2017

When Donald Trump used that counterintuitive, but ironically symbolic, descending escalator to enter the 2016 presidential fray, the thought crossed my mind that if he actually won the GOP nomination, he'd destroy the Republican Party. (If this were unfolding in our dystopian future, we’d all be ...

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