January 6 and the Toxification of the Republican Brand, Both Nationally and in New Jersey

To use a Rooseveltian phrase, January 6, 2021 was a date which will live in infamy. It will long be remembered for the only insurrection against the United States government ever incited and inspired by a President, Donald Trump.

And the events of that day resulted in the toxification of the Republican brand, both nationally and in New Jersey. The toxification did not just result from Trump’s traitorous behavior. Rather, it was a direct consequence of the acquiescence of virtually all Republican political figures nationally in the perfidious conduct of the president.

For over four decades, both as a Republican governmental and campaign official, I could not have been more proud of the GOP brand, both nationally and in New Jersey. The brand featured two proud characteristics, rule of law and patriotism. Now, as a result of January 6 and Republican acquiescence in Trump, most voters identify the Republican brand with mob rule, rather than rule of law, and white nationalist sedition, rather than patriotism.

The word “acquiescence” is defined as “the reluctant acceptance of something without protest.” There are two prominent examples of individual Republican acquiescence in Trump’s January 6 disgrace, one national and the other in New Jersey. Both these accelerated the toxification of the Republican brand.

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