The Republican Party has become a “cult” of President Donald Trump’s “because of an absence of an ideas,” conservative commentator George Will said Wednesday during an appearance on MSNBC while discussing his new book, “The Conservative Sensibility.”
"It has become a cult," Will said on MSNBC when host Stephanie Ruhle asked whether the Republican Party had become the party of Trump.
"It has become a cult because of an absence of ideas. Because they have jettisoned the ideas for years, decades, all the 20th century almost. Conservatives said we're for free trade. Trump said, 'By the way, you're not anymore.' And they said, 'OK, we're not for free trade anymore.' Or they pretend to be."
Will, a constant Trump critic, when asked whether he thought there was a 2020 candidate who would be “better for conservativism” than Trump, said any of the Democratic candidates as long as the Senate was controlled by Republicans.
"Because a Republican Senate would virtually block all legislative change," he said. "And it would take the Republican Party away from its current identification with someone who is in temperament and in most policies not conservative."
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