#189 - Has the GOP Lost Its Way?

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🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What should the Republican party look like after Donald Trump? For many prominent establishment figures, including those behind The Lincoln Project, the GOP has lost its way. The only way back, they say, is to purge the forces that brought Trump to power. But others warn that rejecting the millions of voters who supported the former president is the wrong call for the American right. Rather, the GOP should instead double down, focus on bridging the establishment and grassroots factions of their party, and find a way to move forward together. In light of shifting political sands, we ask: Has the GOP lost its way? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2	In this time of extreme politics, what had stake for the party
0:34.8	that lost the White House in 2020?
0:36.8	Is it true, as some say, that the Republican party has lost its way,
0:40.8	no longer standing for core Republican values,
0:43.6	that it needs to purge itself of whatever it was that brought Donald Trump to power?
0:47.8	Not at all is the pushback, the GOP should be doubling down on the Trump message
0:52.6	and the Trump style which spoke to millions and then build out from there.
0:56.6	The answer to this question could define American politics for a generation to come.
1:01.0	Has the GOP lost its way?
1:04.0	Arguing for the motion is former US Senator from Arizona Jeff Flake.
1:08.4	He served from 2013 to 2019 after six terms in the House of Representatives.
1:13.8	His partner Carlos Curello, a former US Congressman from Florida's 26 District
1:19.2	who served on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means.
1:22.0	Opposing them, Kimberly A. Strossel, author and member of the editorial board
1:26.2	for the Wall Street Journal, and Ben Domenich, the publisher of the Federalist
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