Has Donald Trump killed the Republican Party?

This isn't good news for the Republican Party this November or in the future, because the GOP has sold its soul to Trump. .... President Donald Trump leaves alongside Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, left, after meeting with the House Republican Conference about the tax plan at the U.S. read more

The combined might of the Republican Party’s best and brightest—16 of them at the outset—proved, in the end, helpless against Trump’s unorthodox, muscular appeal to the party’s voting base. With his sweeping, 16-point victory in Tuesday’s Indiana primary, and the surrender of his major remaining rival, Ted Cruz, Trump was pronounced the presumptive nominee by the chair of the Republican National Committee. read more

Trump has turned the new Republican Party into high school. It will be cruel, clique-y and ruled by insult kings like himself and Ann Coulter, whose headline description of Cruz ("Tracy Flick With a Dick") will always resonate with Trump voters more than a thousand George Will columns. read more

October 12, 2016 October 11, 2016 / johnfea Historian Heather Cox Richardson, author of To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party, reflects historically on the significance of the Trump “Access Hollywood” tape and the fate of the GOP. read more