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Jan 21, 2016 26 min

What does the GOP do now?

from Talk Cocktail Hosted by Jeff Schechtman

After its loss in the Presidential election of 2012 the Republican Party felt it needed to do its own after action report. In the end, it was determined that all was basically ok and that the party only needed to broaden its tent and do a little better with Hispanic voters. Enter Jeb Bush. How did that work out? Not so well! What we are seeing today is a total repudiation of a Republican establishment that for 40 years has held onto many of its voters with cultural, racial and religious issues, while delivering nothing of economic value. For the GOP, today the chickens have come home to roost and we understand exactly "what’s the matter with Kansas." Covering all of this and telling the story from those first days after the 2012 election is BuzzFeed's McKay Coppins in his new book The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House. My conversation with McKay Coppins: Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe

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