“Republicans didn’t decide to become President Trump’s party. They surrendered to him, one stage at a time, over a decade, in plain sight,” Axios reports.
“Democrats swear that socialism’s growing grip on their party is different, and can be contained. The early signals suggest otherwise.”
“Party transformations follow a predictable six-stage evolution — recoil, squint, rationalize, submit, amplify, and purge. Each stage has language you can hear long before you see it in the votes. Republicans just finished the full cycle. Democrats might be starting it.”
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