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#329 - What Happened to the Republican Party?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Depressing Moment After the 2020 Election

I'm just wondering whether the transition is conceivably one where no one really has to acknowledge how crazy that was when we Republicans decided that the most basic norms of our democracy didn't matter. I mean, in politics, as they really are, I doubt that would ever happen because you would be pissing off tens of millions of Trump voters who you would need as part of a coalition. But at some point in the future, if the Republican Party is going to be morally viable, let's leave politics aside, but morally viable, you're going to need a Republican leader who stands up and dissociates the party and its brand and its name from Trumpism and what Trump did.

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