After ten years of rollercoaster rides, the Republican Party of the United States is hardly recognized. President Bush’s compassionate conservatism, and the relatively modest John McCain and Mitt Romney as presidential candidates, were felt long ago. Romney was booed and mocked loudly at his own meeting, which shows how far the party is from him. Just last week, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney (Dick Cheney) Congresswoman Liz Cheney (Liz Cheney) was dismissed by her colleagues for challenging Trump. A strong signal of the “election stealing” speech.

The current dominant force of the Republican Party is still the highly divisive populism advocated by former President Donald Trump. As president, Trump violated all traditional electoral wisdom, including his predecessor’s request for support from minorities and the middle class. Instead, he put the foundation of the campaign on a silent line, which worked unexpectedly, defeating the noble but robotic Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton in 2016. (Hillary Clinton).

The Republicans once won, but their political fortunes have deteriorated rapidly since then, losing the House of Representatives in 2018 before further defeats in the Senate and Presidential Palace. After Trump is elected, he has the opportunity to consolidate his control by effectively managing the country. He failed to do so, and the party fell into a state of chaos.

Trump cursed the Republican Party in two ways. The first is in policy. Due to the endless wars of political correctness, he plunged his party into the quagmire of pure populism, isolating and offending the large number of voters the Republican Party needs to win the election. It allows Trump to retain an impressively flexible core vote, but at the cost of weakening American democratic norms. The most typical example is the mob that swept the U.S. Capitol on January 6, which also shut down many swings. voter.

The second issue is ability. The Trump administration was completely unprepared when it was elected, and half-baked policy proposals coupled with mismanagement, rapid turnover of senior staff, leaks and scandals prevented the release of any meaningful policies. There are vacancies in important leadership roles in government departments, and Trump’s “America First” nationalism is disturbed by traditional allies who are keen on international coordination in the field of climate change and defense. This is before the COVID-19 hit the world, people’s concern about the lack of basic administrative management capabilities became the focus of attention, which directly affected the lives of citizens. Without wise policies and effective governance capabilities, the path for Republicans to re-occupy the White House now looks more distant than ever.

A confident Republican party would accept anti-Trump insurgents like Romney and Liz Cheney, but on the contrary, they are abandoning them, and most politicians are still looking at Trump’s approval. Trump denies that he lost the last election, which further prevents rational analysis of how Republicans are more competitive in the election, thus locking them in the echo chamber, which has a corrosive effect on effective decision-making.

Perhaps the inspiration may come from the entire Atlantic, and then to another institution in the form of the British Conservative Party. Although it has been in power for 11 years, the party has achieved success in local elections. The Conservative Party, also known as the Conservative Party, has recently suffered from the turmoil caused by the breakup of Brexit. In five years, the party changed its leadership and policies, from the glamorous, fiscally prudent and relatively European close David Cameron (David Cameron) to a stalemate, until Theresa May (Theresa May) stagnation He stopped, and then reached a settlement with the large-spending, booming Boris Johnson, who led the British ruling party to withdraw from the European Union.

Perceiving the changes in the political landscape, after reinventing itself, the neo-conservative party under Johnson’s leadership rebounded after losing its majority in May 2017, and rebounded with a majority in parliament in 2019. Now, despite a difficult year in response to the pandemic, the party has achieved further development. The parliamentary by-election was obtained from the former Labor Party stronghold and hundreds of members in the recent local elections.

Johnson did two things. In terms of policy, he took a clear position on Brexit, conducted stricter negotiations on exiting the European Union, and set Brexit as a unity moment. This resonated with many voters who were exhausted by the political deadlock. He is also very agile politically. When the opposition fouled Brexit, the Conservatives were busy parking their tanks in the traditional labor policy arena, increased spending commitments, championed sustainability issues, and injected billions of dollars into the National Health Service (NHS) New funds. The news from the health publisher “Nurse” pointed out that according to reports, nurses on the left in history are turning to the Conservative Party. This will especially cause problems for labor because it threatens the core vote of the main opposition party. In addition to popular policies, voters also saw the government’s ability to provide vaccines and quickly introduced them.

The Conservative Party still needs attention. Compared with Republicans, they face greater differences, and Democrats and Conservatives will have to work hard to maintain their uneasy coalition of supporters from the South and the North. Regardless, Republicans can learn from their political agility and inclusive storytelling.

If Republicans hope to win the presidency again, they must broaden their horizons so that they appear capable of transcending a slogan. This includes investigating the popular policies followed by Democrats, just as the Conservative Party did to the Labour Party. The grassroots of the Republican Party have no intention to share many ideas with the Democratic Party. Therefore, studying the friendly faces on the opposite side of the pond may provide a more palatable template to succeed in the election. If this helps the former Lincoln Party to play down its alarmist, sometimes shameful rhetoric, it will be better for their party, the United States and the world.

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