What happened to the republican party and what it means for american presidential politics amazonde white john kenneth fremdsprachige bucher wahlen sie ihre cookie einstellungen wir verwenden cookies und ahnliche tools um ihr einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern um unsere dienste anzubieten um zu verstehen wie die kunden unsere dienste nutzen damit wir verbesserungen vornehmen . White teaches us the inescapable truth that american political parties are mostly either seeking and welcoming converts to their side or instead hunting down and banishing heretics from their ranks republicans in 1980 following the lead of ronald reagan threw open the doors and invited in disaffected democrats and independents just as the barack obama led democrats would 28 years later but the contemporary gop has been very much in a heretic banishing mode and republicans . Scholars in political science and political history general readers interested in the current presidential campaign and the health of american democracy features 1 current anticipates the current state of the republican party at odds with itself as much as with the american public includes 2014 midterm election data with an eye toward . Republicans who dont like trump want to go back to normal but the old gop is dead trump made a new party and that is the party of the future. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more