David Brooks: At least Trump crushed the dying husk of Reaganism in the GOP

BROOKS: And the argument is that the Republican Party was, for many years, the Reagan party. And for some years in the 1980s, that was fine. But the ideology became increasingly obsolete. And what Trump has done is he’s destroyed the remnants of it.

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And after Trump loses, which I trust he will, then there’ll be time for rebirth and a revolutionary phase where you have multiple interpretations about what the Republican Party can be, but it won’t be going back to the obsolete Reagan ideology. It will have to be something new because Donald Trump has exposed it for being a shell of what it formally was. His only virtue is that he’s destroyed a dying husk, but something creative and something new and maybe something exciting will come in its stead.

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