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Republican Party 2.0

If the Republican Party is to retake power at a time when America’s demographics, labor market and social norms are undergoing profound change, we believe it must relax its attitudes about such issues as gay rights and immigration and tailor its economies policies to the concerns of the middle class. Some in the party recognize as much; others cling to what worked in the past.

Donald Trump

After Trump’s Defeat, Republicans Must Purge His Insurgents

Republicans need to slay the monster they have created or cede the center ground to Democrats.

Nick OttensNick OttensNovember 4, 2016November 27, 2021

Conservatives Come to Terms with What They’ve Done

Some right-wing commentators are owning up to their responsibility for the rise of Donald Trump.

Nick OttensNick OttensAugust 17, 2016November 27, 2021
United States Capitol Washington

End of the Road for America’s Republicans

This year’s presidential contest is the culmination of years of Republican surrender to the hard right.

Nick OttensNick OttensMarch 20, 2016February 18, 2022
Republican National Convention Tampa Florida

Realignment Less Likely Than Republican Split

Before the two major parties in the United States can realign, the Republicans need to split up.

Nick OttensNick OttensMarch 3, 2016November 27, 2021

Donald Trump and the Republican Schism of 2016

The Republican Party is unraveling. Donald Trump is the straw that broke the elephant’s back.

Nick OttensNick OttensFebruary 29, 2016November 27, 2021

Rubio Is the Last Hurrah of Bush Republicanism

Let’s dispel with this fiction that Marco Rubio represents the future of the Republican Party.

Nick OttensNick OttensFebruary 22, 2016November 27, 2021
Jeb Bush

Something Is Rotten in the Republican Party

The fact that Jeb Bush didn’t get far in the Republican contest is an indictment of what his party has become.

Nick OttensNick OttensFebruary 21, 2016November 29, 2021

Republicans Yet to Banish Ghost of George W. Bush

Republicans are starting to come to terms with the failures of their last administration. It isn’t pretty.

Nick OttensNick OttensFebruary 15, 2016November 27, 2021

Republicans Overpromised (And Some Know It)

Republican leader Paul Ryan urges lawmakers to stop making promises they know they can’t keep.

Nick OttensNick OttensFebruary 5, 2016November 30, 2021

Republicans Push Back Against Trump’s Pessimism

Few of the candidates dispute Donald Trump’s declinism. But other Republicans are pushing back.

Nick OttensNick OttensJanuary 18, 2016April 20, 2022

Republicans Losing Support from Hispanics, Youth

Hispanic voters and young whites are ever less likely to support a right-wing presidential candidate.

Nick OttensNick OttensDecember 31, 2015October 24, 2021

Republicans Should Stop Obsessing About Tax Cuts

Republicans aren’t going to win the 2016 election with an economic program out of the 1980s.

Nick OttensNick OttensNovember 11, 2015April 20, 2022

Between the Crazy, Serious Ideas in Republican Debate

CNBC’s debate was the worst. But it also showed Republicans are serious about solving big problems.

Nick OttensNick OttensOctober 29, 2015April 20, 2022

Where is the Republican Optimism?

Republicans are all doom and gloom. They need to tell a more American story.

Nick OttensNick OttensOctober 15, 2015November 28, 2021

Republicans Need to Solve Middle Class Problems

Republicans needs to be seen as solving middle-class Americans’ problems or they will lose again.

Nick OttensNick OttensSeptember 10, 2015April 20, 2022

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