During a speech in Illinois, Former President Barack Obama said President Donald Trump is "capitalizing on resentment that politicians have been fanning for years" and questioned "What happened to the Republican Party?", in his most pointed rebuke to date of his successor in the White House.

A telling quote about the state of the Republican Party
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

(CNN) - North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer was asked recently by CNN about former Sen. David Perdue's embrace of election denialism in his run for Georgia governor.

"I don't know whether he believes it or not. I really don't," Cramer said. "But I'm sure it's a political strategy."

Consider that for a minute.

A US senator is saying that he isn't sure whether a former US senator believes the false claims that the 2020 election was stolen (it wasn't).

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Telling lies has become the norm for today's Republicans
Analysis by John Harwood, CNN

(CNN) - To assume lies would sink House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is to misunderstand the nature of today's Republican Party: They actually demonstrate his credentials to lead it.

That's not merely because Donald Trump remains the dominant GOP figure. The former President lies incessantly, and his aberrant behavior compels fellow Republicans to lie about him.

The problem runs deeper than one man. For a minority party joining blue-collar voters driven by cultural resentment with affluent donors fixed on the bottom line, gaining and wielding power requires dissembling beyond the conventional equivocation that politicians in all parties have always used to amass popular support.

One of the GOP's most successful political consultants of recent decades issued that judgment in a confessional 2020 memoir. Stuart Stevens titled his book: "It Was All a Lie."
One clear policy example is tax cuts. Like other GOP candidates in 2016, Trump promised that his tax plan would benefit the middle class, not the rich.

"It's going to cost me a fortune," the billionaire candidate said.

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