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BumRushDaShow

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Thu Nov 7, 2024, 07:37 AM Nov 2024

The Atlantic's David Frum leaves GOP after Trump victory [View all]

Source: The Hill

11/06/24 6:58 PM ET


Conservative author David Frum announced Wednesday that he has left the Republican Party following President-elect Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election. “De-registered as a Republican today,” Frum, a staff writer at The Atlantic, wrote on the social platform X on Wednesday.

Frum, a former speechwriter for then-President George W. Bush, has held on to his party affiliation even as he has become a vocal critic of the former president and his influence on the Republican Party since the 2016 election.

In 2016, Frum penned an editorial announcing he was reluctantly supporting Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and urged his like-minded Republicans to follow suit, writing, “Your hand may hesitate to put a mark beside the name Hillary Clinton. You’re not doing it for her. The vote you cast is for the republic and the Constitution.”

In 2018, he lamented what he described as a party broken in two in an interview on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” “The Republican Party is a broken party,” Frum said in the 2018 interview. “And there are people who have served the Republican Party that was, and there are people who are volunteering to serve the Republican Party that will be.” “It is important to understand that something new is taking the place of the Republican Party,” he added.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4977873-the-atlantic-david-frum-leaves-gop-after-trump-victory/

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Neither Democrats nor Republicans are in control now bucolic_frolic Nov 2024 #1
And far too many of our fellow citizens... Wuddles440 Nov 2024 #2
They're eager for the violence. They just assume that the targets will only be black and brown people. Lonestarblue Nov 2024 #5
That's a broad brush you are painting with TexLaProgressive Nov 2024 #11
They will eat shit and like it thanks to the media. live love laugh Nov 2024 #6
Yeah... GB_RN Nov 2024 #13
Until they vote for the next idiot PhilosopherKing Nov 2024 #22
When trumpers DownriverDem Nov 2024 #4
And eat a truckload of popcorn all the while. . . DinahMoeHum Nov 2024 #15
They'll use Dems as a scapegoat when things go south. Some Dem boogeyman to cover for their ineptitude. NCDem47 Nov 2024 #29
Thanks for the insight. Yes, new territory -- I'll call it Elon's cryptotechbro territory... ancianita Nov 2024 #8
Yes, the tech companies are a problem. LisaM Nov 2024 #9
That problem will become Elon's cryptotechbro solution scaled up so that America is Seattle. ancianita Nov 2024 #10
Well said. I've watched this happening in Seattle, San Francisco, and around D.C. erronis Nov 2024 #16
I think many tech bros are on the autism spectrum TexasBushwhacker Nov 2024 #20
Then why do we cede them control? LisaM Nov 2024 #21
please don't generalize autistic people as lacking empathy The Wandering Harper Nov 2024 #31
That was my exact thought, bucolic - cilla4progress Nov 2024 #17
when Independents are the largest "party" NJCher Nov 2024 #19
We'll have a South African immigrant and apartheid trust fund baby in charge: Musk SunSeeker Nov 2024 #23
Here's the new power structure Bluetus Nov 2024 #35
Almost screams for a Save-the-World-from-Musk Society bucolic_frolic Nov 2024 #38
We are "governed" by a handful of super-wealthy entities. King_Klonopin Nov 2024 #37
We're the big tent group. duncang Nov 2024 #3
Too late barbtries Nov 2024 #7
It's the billionaires, tech bros, and oligarchs party now FakeNoose Nov 2024 #18
Just can't care about one more republican giving up on their party mtngirl47 Nov 2024 #12
Not newsworthy Raven123 Nov 2024 #14
So fucking what? TheBadWolf Nov 2024 #24
True dat Evolve Dammit Nov 2024 #26
Frum has no responsibility for the Trump Effect. He has consistently criticized Trump. Leaving the Republican Party is Martin68 Nov 2024 #34
Smells like integrity. Evolve Dammit Nov 2024 #25
Of course Lindsey even said he was out. A round of "golf" changed that Evolve Dammit Nov 2024 #27
... and a splash of kompromat blackmail. magicarpet Nov 2024 #28
Oh you're leaving NOW. AFTER the damage has been done. calimary Nov 2024 #30
He is leaving because the Republican Party has gone totally MAGA. That's a good thing. He has been consistently Martin68 Nov 2024 #33
I believe in redemption. Frum has admitted his role in lying to get Clarance Thomas confirmed. He has consistently Martin68 Nov 2024 #32
Anyone who leaves the GOP after the election should also stop posting on X. Jit423 Nov 2024 #36
Welcome to DU, Jit423! calimary Nov 2024 #39
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