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How dark fringes reached the center of the Republican Party BY TOM NICHOLS As a former Republican, I’m aware that the American conservative movement has spent generations fighting off intrusions from the far right, including the John Birchers and the Ku Klux Klan. But I am still surprised and aggrieved by how quickly 21st-century Nazism has found a home in the party of Lincoln. In 1991, President George H. W. Bush repudiated the former Klan leader David Duke, who was running as a Republican to be Louisiana’s governor. Today, Trump and his party haven’t bothered to even pretend to be appalled by the degenerates gathering under the GOP aegis. …
摘自《大西洋月刊》(The Atlantic)2026年4月4日,Tom Nichols。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。