Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Third-Party Republicans Are No Threat to Trump

Changing the GOP would require grass-roots support, a realistic plan and a killer instinct. A new effort seems to lack all three.

May 13, 2021 at 11:30 AM UTC

By Jonathan Bernstein

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Republicans who oppose former President Donald Trump have been startlingly ineffective for several years now. Here comes another try: Anti-Trump Republican Miles Taylor has organized some 100 other anti-Trump Republicans into a proto-party, threatening to become a genuine separate party if Republicans continue on their present course.