How Donald Trump Saved the GOP

by Dov Fischer June 19, 2022, 11:39 PM

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Unlike all his Republican predecessors since Reagan, he fought for his beliefs and was never afraid. In so doing, he gave a dead party new life.

President-elect Trump in Hershey, PA on Dec. 15, 2016 (Evan El-Amin/Shutterstock.com)

I used to love reading George Will. In the Days of Clinton and Obama, Will was solidly conservative. His writing remains brilliant, witty, erudite. He knows a woman does not wear white after Labor Day and that a fish fork and salad fork each plays its own role. He is clever.

I also used to love reading other more conservative writers at the Washington Post and New York Times. If I were old enough, I would have voted for Ike and Nixon in 1952–1960. I definitely would have voted for Goldwater in ’64 because in my heart I knew he was right. I was too young to vote for Nixon in 1968, but Nixon was the one for me when I voted for him in 1972 against McGovern. I voted for Ford in 1976, but Carter the Peanut Farmer won.…