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The GOP’s pessimistic platform for the future is the worst of our past
By Will Marshall
Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute


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Gathering in Charlotte four years ago to renominate President Donald Trump, ([link removed]) Republicans didn’t bother to draft a party platform. Evidently, they figured, “more Trump” was all the public needed to know about their second-term plans.

It probably was, although not in the way Republicans had hoped, as the voters dumped Trump and hired Joe Biden.

Americans vote for people, not platforms. But these manifestoes, however platitudinous and boring, are like a quadrennial Rorschach test of a party’s state of mind. The GOP’s decision to recycle its 2016 platform ([link removed]) seemed calculated ([link removed]) to paper over internal ideological rifts as well as their nominee’s frequent lapses into incoherence.

This time, party leaders plan to write ([link removed]) a new platform ([link removed]) for next month’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. This time, having thoroughly routed traditional conservatives and the GOP’s dwindling band of dissenters from his “stolen election” fantasy, Trump can expect blind obedience from his party.
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