On Sunday the 2020 Republican National Committee announced that the 2020 GOP presidential campaign will not have a political platform, just a pledge of fealty to Donald Trump. Perhaps the Republican Party should now be called a Cult of Personality Disorder.
More:
“The GOP Has No Party Platform. Literally.” Cristina Cabrera, TalkingPointsMemo
“GOP Will Not Write a 2020 Platform, Pledges Undying Trump Support Instead,” Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
“Why Republicans didn’t write a platform for their convention this year,” Andrew Prokop, Vox
“It’s official: Trump is the GOP. And the GOP is Trump.” Paul Waldman, Washington Post
“The Trump MAGA-verse consumes the RNC,” Tina Nguyen, Politico
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