Former President Donald Trump has spent the last five years tearing apart the Republican Party. His influence is all around the GOP where it has nearly been impossible for governors, congressmen and congresswomen, senators and voters to denounce his pathological lying and his divisive words.
I have been disgusted by how people can fear a politician and yet suck up to him for political purposes. This is a very disconcerting thing because this is the political party I am registered with. I have been a Republican since 2016 and I have no desire to change that, but at the same time, I cannot believe what my party has become.
It seems like only a small fraction of the Republican Party likes Trump, but a lot of politicians support him. They only support him because they fear that voters and family members will harass them for not supporting Trump. They also feel pressure to support him because he is a narcissist who will relentlessly bully them if they do not do what he says.
Voters support Trump because of the positive impact he had on the economy and America, but they are being deceived. These voters will claim that Trump had cut taxes but according to CBS News, Trump gave breaks to the top 1% and not the middle class, who actually saw their taxes rise. The other policies that Trump had implemented were not great either, such as negotiating a deal with the Taliban that involved the withdrawal of troops.
Trump drove up the national debt unlike any other president had done before. Republicans should be against big government spending and yet, after Trump promised to lower the federal debt, he only made it worse. According to CNN Business, the national debt rose $7 trillion under Trump’s administration. The national debt has gotten even worse as Joe Biden and the Democrats have continued to raise the national debt with trillions and billions of dollars of spending rather than finding ways to cut the debt.
Republicans such as Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Larry Hogan, Charlie Baker, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are a few of a long list of Republicans who have denounced Trump. Groups like The Bulwark and The Lincoln Project are anti-Trump Republicans who have made it their goal to attack Trump and his followers. More Republicans should follow suit and denounce Trump. More Republicans should follow in the steps of the 17 Republicans from the House and Senate who voted to impeach the former president following the events on Jan. 6. If more members of the GOP can finally stand up to Trump, the Republican Party can finally return to normal.
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