From the NYT Editorial Board this morning...
Quote:Quote:R.I.P., G.O.P.
The Party of Lincoln had a good run. Then came Mr. Trump.
Of all the things President Trump has destroyed, the Republican Party is among the most dismaying.
“Destroyed” is perhaps too simplistic, though. It would be more precise to say that Mr. Trump accelerated his party’s demise, exposing the rot that has been eating at its core for decades and leaving it a hollowed-out shell devoid of ideas, values or integrity, committed solely to preserving its own power even at the expense of democratic norms, institutions and ideals...
For nearly twenty years, some of us here and other contributors I know at other commentary sites along with many smart political writers have been making this observation. And only
now does the NYT Editorial Board arrive at the conclusion (or manage the gumption to say so). There are surely some good reasons for this glacial pace of institutional news media but those reasons have proven to be a real impediment to the proper and necessary role of such media. And imagining that the consequent threats to democracy are over with a Biden win is to make the same mistake again.
