Trump sounds the GOP's death knell, the end of the old Republican order.

A lot happened at the RNC yesterday, but the most telling moment predicting the future of America's

conservative movement in the GOP was when Senate Republican

leader Mitch McConnell was soundly and loudly booed by the assembled delegates

and participants and then JD Vance was elected was selected for VP.

It was the death knell of the old order.

The Republican Party that has held a relatively consistent set of values since the 1880s

and the beginning of something entirely new.

Emphasizing this, Donald Trump picked Vance a man who like Trump no longer embraces

the traditional conservative values and policy positions of the GOP as his vice president.

By ignoring what could be called the Nicky Haley Mitt Romney, Ronald Reagan wing of the

party in favor of this pugilistic air to the politics of Joe McCarthy.

Trump signaled he believes he's now strong enough that he can ignore entirely the Orthodox

or GOP and take both the party and our country down an authoritarian road we haven't traveled since the days of

John C. Calhoun's nullification crisis.

I grew up in a traditional Republican household.

My dad who had a good union job in a tool and dye shop

was an enthusiastic Eisenhower Goldwater and Reagan Republican and I well remember

the values and policy positions that animated the GOP from that era until

Trump's hostile takeover in 2016. Traditional Republicans

supported the American system of elections, encouraged voter

registration drives.

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