Conservative columnist Max Boot favors a Democratic Congress come November because the GOP has become a “white-nationalist party.”
“You used to belong to a conservative party with a white-nationalist fringe,” he wrote in the Washington Post Wednesday. “Now it’s a white-nationalist party with a conservative fringe.”
Boot’s piece was titled, “I left the Republican Party. Now I want Democrats to take over.” He said he re-registered as an independent the day after President Trump’s election, and he cited Trump’s zero-tolerance border policy, which led to the separation of immigrant children from their parents, as a prime example of why he’s had enough with the Republican Party.
“While two-thirds of Americans disapproved of this state-sanctioned child abuse, forcing the president to back down, a majority of Republicans approved. If Trump announced he were going to spit-roast immigrant kids and eat them on national TV (apologies to Jonathan Swift), most Republicans probably would approve of that, too.”
Rather than taking a “Never Trump” stance like other Republicans, Boot said he plans to join with other conservatives, including Washington Post columnist George F. Will and root for Democratic candidates in both houses this November.
“Like postwar Germany and Japan, the Republican Party must be destroyed before it can be rebuilt,” he wrote.
According to a Gallup poll, Trump received an 87 percent approval rating from Republicans between June 25 and July 1, and a 42 percent approval rating overall.
