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James Carville: “There’s no such thing as the Republican Party. It is a Trump cult. It’s not a political party, in the sense that it…”

On the recordMay 18, 2021
There’s no such thing as the Republican Party. It is a Trump cult. It’s not a political party, in the sense that it builds coalitions and tries to expand things and compromises and does some good things and some bad things, and it’s a kind of clumsy, awkward, whatever a political party is.
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James Carville
Democratic · Louisiana
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msnbc.com

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James Carville describes the Republican Party as a cult of Donald Trump rather than a traditional political party.

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