{"id":4558,"date":"2021-02-27T22:28:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T22:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2021-02-27T22:28:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T22:28:03","slug":"the-party-cant-move-on-ross-douthat-on-the-republican-party-after-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4558","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe party can\u2019t move on\u201d: Ross Douthat on the Republican Party after Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> &#8220;Regardless of what Trump does post-presidency, his impact on the conservative base has been profound. According to one poll,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/11\/09\/republicans-free-fair-elections-435488\" target=\"_blank\">70 percent of Republicans<\/a>\u00a0don\u2019t believe the 2020 election was free and fair. That\u2019s not all that surprising considering\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/16\/21569619\/trump-almost-concede-tweet-i-won-election\" target=\"_blank\">the leader of the party<\/a>\u00a0is telling his followers that the process was rigged and illegitimate. So whatever direction the GOP goes, they\u2019re going with a Trumpian base and that might be the defining constraint for the party over the next four years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/21760348\/trump-2020-election-republican-party-ross-douthat\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/21760348\/trump-2020-election-republican-party-ross-douthat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Regardless of what Trump does post-presidency, his impact on the conservative base has been profound. According to one poll, 70 percent of Republicans don\u2019t believe the 2020 election was free and fair. That\u2019s not all that surprising considering the leader of the party is telling his followers that the process was rigged and illegitimate. So whatever direction the GOP goes, they\u2019re going with a Trumpian base and that might be the defining constraint for the party over the next four years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,968],"class_list":["post-4558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4559,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions\/4559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}