Letters: ‘It Is Clear Now That Republicans Are the Party of Wealth and Privilege’
Readers react to one Republican’s decision to leave the party he identified with for the better part of four decades.
Why I’m Leaving the Republican Party
“The Republican Party now exists for one reason, and one reason only,” Tom Nichols wrote recently, “for the exercise of raw political power, and not for ends I would otherwise applaud or even support.” The Brett Kavanaugh confirmation fight, he argued, revealed the GOP to be the party of situational ethics and moral relativism in the name of winning at all costs.
I agree with Tom Nichols. However, I left the Republican Party around Nixon, but was definitely out with Reagan. Before those two, I was actively involved in Nelson Rockefeller’s campaign.
I cannot abide the
