One person who might provoke me to throw a brick through my television set is former Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Nonetheless, I agree with him here:
Republicans stand at a crossroads. With Donald Trump as the presumptive presidential nominee, we are witnessing a populist hijacking of one of the United States’ great political parties. The GOP, in putting Trump at the top of the ticket, is endorsing a brand of populism rooted in ignorance, prejudice, fear and isolationism. This troubles me deeply as a Republican, but it troubles me even more as an American. Enough is enough. It’s time to put country before party and say it together: Never Trump.
Of course, other than the isolationism, the party Paulson describes is the same one in which he served. I’d call it a lot of things, but I wouldn’t call it ‘great.’
