01 October 2017

SYKES: Trump and a Gutless GOP Wrecked the Party

'The capacity of Republicans to rationalize their support
appears to be bottomless'


Charlie Sykes isn’t the only person to recognize that the Republican Party has gone batshit crazy, but in many ways he’s one of the more interesting voices to comment on the phenomenon. 

A former conservative talk show host in his native Wisconsin, Sykes was on the 'Never Trump' train from the beginning, watching with horror as the orange-haired one won his party’s presidential nomination, then the office itself, then saw how members of the party managed to justify their support for a man he describes as 'an utterly unqualified reality TV star'...