Trump is a symptom, not the cause. The underlying cause is a Republican party that abandoned political decency decades ago when they welcomed Dixecrats into their parties in the 1960s as a way of shoehorning unpopular anti-tax and deregulatory politics into a democratic political system that had rejected those things. It was a problem when John McCain was complaining about making MLK day a holiday, it was a problem when George HW ran the Willie Horton ad, it was a problem when Newt Gingrich was saying racist crap about welfare queens, it was a problem when George W Bush blamed 9/11 on Iraq because they were brown, and on and on.
George Conway was a happy member of that party for most of his life and is only now recognizing the problems with what he built in the most superficial of ways. Ultimately he just represents a previous step on a path that was always inevitably going to end up here. The answer isn’t trying to go back, it’s about getting on a whole new path.
Trump is a symptom, not the cause. The underlying cause is a Republican party that abandoned political decency decades ago when they welcomed Dixecrats into their parties in the 1960s as a way of shoehorning unpopular anti-tax and deregulatory politics into a democratic political system that had rejected those things. It was a problem when John McCain was complaining about making MLK day a holiday, it was a problem when George HW ran the Willie Horton ad, it was a problem when Newt Gingrich was saying racist crap about welfare queens, it was a problem when George W Bush blamed 9/11 on Iraq because they were brown, and on and on.
George Conway was a happy member of that party for most of his life and is only now recognizing the problems with what he built in the most superficial of ways. Ultimately he just represents a previous step on a path that was always inevitably going to end up here. The answer isn’t trying to go back, it’s about getting on a whole new path.