Why MAGA is the future, not just present, of the GOP
The selection of J.D. Vance means that Donald Trump’s influence may linger
WHAT A DIFFERENCE eight years make. When Donald Trump mounted his hostile takeover of the Republican Party in 2016, the mood at the Republicans’ convention that year in Cleveland was poisonous. In 2024, at their convention in Milwaukee, Mr Trump became the first person to secure three consecutive major-party nominations for the presidency since Franklin Roosevelt. Republicanism has become synonymous with Trumpism now.
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The Republican Party’s MAGA future”
United States July 20th 2024
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