There was a time in American politics, not that long ago, when there were actually liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats, and a broad range of moderates.
But the landscape has changed, and the parties have become much more polarized – reciprocally, it seems, the MAGA-dominated GOP.
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Twenty years ago a prominent Republican warned us about the divide and what it was doing to the country.
Christine Todd Whitman, the two-term Governor of New Jersey and Rockefeller Republican, former EPA Administrator, said the 21st century GOP was turning away from the party she had grown up in.
Whitman wrote a book in 2005 called It’s My Party, Too – The Battle For the Heart of the GOP. She and I talked about the book in February of 2005, just a couple of weeks after George W. Bush’s second term began.
So here now, from 2005, Christine Todd Whitman .
Christine Todd Whitman is 78 now. In 2022 she and former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang co-founded the centrist “Forward Party.”
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