Max Boot: "The GOP Can't Be Saved."

Click here for an article by Max Boot in The Washington Post entitled "The GOP can't be saved. Center-right voters need to become Biden Republicans."

Boot lauds Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) for speaking out against Trump and defending the Republican party, saying that he himself used to feel that way. He says, "My hope was that a decisive win for Hillary Clinton would bring the GOP to its senses." The day after Clinton's loss, he re-registered as an independent.

He cites a new Reuters-Ipsos poll which saysL

81 percent of Republicans have a favorable impression of Trump. Wait. It gets worse: 60 percent say the 2020 election was stolen from him, only 28 percent say he is even partly to blame for the Capitol insurrection, and 55 percent say that the Capitol attack “was led by violent left-wing protestors trying to make Trump look bad.”

That's pretty frightening: 72 percent of Republicans believe Trump is completely blameless for the January 6 insurrection? Unbelievable.

He pooh-poohs the idea of forming a third party, and says people like him face a binary choice:

Support either an increasingly extremist and obstructionist Republican Party or a Democratic Party that, under President Biden, is working to solve our most pressing problems.

He cites popular support for Biden's policies:

At 53.1 percent, Biden’s approval rating is higher than Trump’s ever was. Polls show that 73 percent approve of Biden’s handling of the coronavirus and 60 percent of his handling of the economy. There is also broad support for his infrastructure plan, with 64 percent backing tax hikes on corporations to pay for it.

The solution he proposes: vote for Biden.