Country Over Party: How Traditional Republicans Became Democrats

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"I don't know anybody from the Bush years that I worked with directly who is still a Republican, or if they're a Republican, they do not support Trump." The Republican Party’s decades-long drift toward right-wing populism has pushed moderate, establishment conservatives out, says Michele Nix, former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush. Michele Nix was speaking to Ryan Tubridy on Times Radio. Listen live every Sunday, 1–4pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

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