Interview · moment 3 of 20
Republican Transformation Under Trump and the Tom Tillis Story
from Bernie Sanders | The Tim Dillon Show #467 · #467
4 min
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Sanders describes how Trump reshaped the GOP into a cult of personality, using Senator Tom Tillis's retirement after opposing Trump's bill as an example of billionaires threatening primaries.
- Republican Party transformed under Trump from conventional centerright to working-class party with cult-of-personality ideology
- Tom Tillis story: senator read Trump's healthcare bill, concluded it would devastate North Carolina, said he couldn't vote for it
- Trump attacked Tillis on social media and billionaires threatened unlimited primary spending against him, forcing his retirement
- Tim argues Republican Party and Democratic Party have both undergone transformation away from working people toward different constituencies
- Democratic Party diverted energy from economic message into social justice sphere, proving unpopular with working-class voters who went to Trump
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