{"id":627,"date":"2018-06-14T04:36:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T04:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.frenify.net\/?p=627"},"modified":"2018-06-14T04:36:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T04:36:01","slug":"why-challenging-trump-is-so-hard-for-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/why-challenging-trump-is-so-hard-for-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Why challenging Trump is so hard for Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A year and a half into Trump&#8217;s presidency, Republicans are learning now more than ever that the GOP is Trump&#8217;s party and that&#8217;s leading to some tough choices.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">From trade policy to primary endorsements, the President&#8217;s positions &#8212; even if they challenge long-established Republican orthodoxy&#8211; are redefining what it means to be a part of the GOP.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">After a stunning loss Tuesday night, South Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Sanford\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/12\/politics\/tuesday-primaries-south-carolina-virginia-nevada-north-dakota-maine\/index.html\">became the latest casualty in the fight for the GOP&#8217;s future<\/a>. A member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, Sanford exemplified the conservative, less-government philosophy &#8212; that was once the cornerstone of the party. But, in the eyes of voters, Sanford&#8217;s free-wielding jabs at Trump, his candid comments about the President&#8217;s leadership style, overshadowed any allegiance he had to conservative principles.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year and a half into Trump&#8217;s presidency, Republicans are learning now more than ever that the GOP is Trump&#8217;s party and that&#8217;s leading to some tough choices. From trade policy to primary endorsements, the President&#8217;s positions &#8212; even if they challenge long-established Republican orthodoxy&#8211; are redefining what it means to be a part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30,31,36,37,39,40,13,17,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brexit","category-conservatives","category-dup","category-labour-party","category-lib-dems","category-newsletters","category-opinion","category-politics","category-snp","category-ukip","category-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}