Politico’s Glasser: ‘The Republican Party Doesn’t Really Know What It Stands for Anymore Under Pres. Trump’

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GLASSER: "Well, that’s right. It used to be, just as Republicans were the bedrock party of free trade, right — if there’s one thing we knew that that was the consensus of the Republican Party on, it was free trade — the same thing was true on the hawkishness toward Russia, which generally had prevailed and persisted through the end of the Cold War. Now you look at those public opinion surveys, and, basically, because the party’s standard-bearer, Donald Trump, has changed his view last year in 2016, the Republican electorate changed their view in an astonishingly short period of time. So, this coming weekend, Vladimir Putin be up for his sort of token reelection. He’s already the longest serving Russian leader since Joseph Stalin. Now he has the prospect of six more years. You have — by the way, today, as we are having this conversation, it hasn’t come up, but Xi Jinping will be basically now rubber-stamped as the leader for life in China. They are eliminating term limits on their leadership today. These two incredibly significant geopolitical things are happening in the context of an American presidency this week, we see more clearly than any other, it is a presidency, as someone in my household wrote, a presidency of one. And, you know, you see him shedding advisers. Unclear whether he is listening to the counsel of others. And I think that goes to the politics. The Republican Party doesn’t really know what it stands for anymore under President Trump."