Republican Party Pros And Cons

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an directly in opposition to the establishment of the Republican Party -- and all it believed in. These people have failed you, Trump told crowds. They lied to you. They abandoned their principles. They aren't who they said they were. And it was more than just tonal differences. Trump expressed little concerns for deficits -- a core principle of the most recent iteration of the GOP, best represented by Speaker Paul Ryan. His views on immigration -- from his desire to build a wall along the country's southern border to his so-called travel ban -- represented a clear break from efforts led Sens. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Marco Rubio, R-Florida, among others, to shepherd a comprehensive immigration reform bill to passage in Congress. The belief prevalent among many establishment Republicans -- most of whom backed Trump somewhat unwillingly -- was that he would abandon or, at the very least, scale back some of his more radical proposals. That a Republican president -- even one as loosely affiliated with the party and its principles as Trump -- would be better than a Hillary Clinton presidency. …show more content…

And rather than stand up to Trump and fight, congressional Republicans largely went along for the ride. Sure, at times they complained about his methods. Sure, they have some background quotes about how he wasn't terribly concerned with first principles of conservatism. But they went along. They voted for the tax cut. They didn't, really, fight the travel ban. And so on and so

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