“The Republican Party still finds itself in Donald Trump’s Darth-Vader-like chokehold,” Taylor told me when I spoke to him. “And if the GOP doesn’t ditch the dark side soon, historians will not be writing about the Party’s dominance in the 2020s but rather about its demise.” He was calling for an “insurgency of pragmatists to disrupt the GOP status quo and either bring the party back from the brink of extremism and restore sanity, or else to hasten the creation of an alternative political movement that will embrace truth, decency, and America’s founding ideals.” (The former president, who was kicked off most social media platforms for fomenting an insurrection against the U.S. government, and thus had to release a poorly written statement to advertise his response, was not pleased.)
The GOP is floundering, Taylor told me, failing to make a compelling case to young people. “You know you’ve got a problem when more young people would rather join the Nickleback Fan Club than your political party,” Taylor said. “If the GOP doesn’t wake up, it deserves to be wiped out.”
The larger question remains, can the Republican Party be saved, and does it even deserve to be saved? We have long been a country of two parties, but there is nothing in our Constitution that mandates our political system be set up in this way. And what we have now is effectively a two-party system in which one party has lost its mind. See, for example, the republicans in the Arizona Legislature, who have spent at least $150,000 on a recount led by a Florida-based cybersecurity company called Cyber Ninjas. (Cyber Ninja’s is currently looking for bamboo ballets because of an conspiracy theory that is really to stupid to go into.) It’s hard to argue that the two-party system is the best means of democratic governance when one party is literally trying to make it harder to vote. Given all this, perhaps it's better to let the modern day GOP go the way of the Whigs.
And yet, is the Republican Party holding itself hostage? Can they be saved if they break free of their former leader, as Cheney and Taylor would have them do? Liberate themselves from the angry Tweets of a guy who is banned from Twitter? After all Trump no longer holds office, he spends much of his time entertaining tourists and telling people where the omelet station is at his Palm Beach club. If the GOP wants to maintain any semblance of credibility, people like Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney and Miles Taylor will have to wrest control back from the spineless cowards who are currently in control. I’m not holding my breath.
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