June 19, 2018      5:07 PM
HK: GOP Convention opts for small tent Republicanism
This Convention leaves little doubt it prefers purity over party-building but that has not always been the case
You can put a ribbon on the 2018 State
Republican convention now and one thing is clear. The “small tent” Republicans
carried the day.
With the
exception of a chairman battle which typically represents
the soul of the party for the next two years, this was more a celebration of Donald Trump and “party unity” than
growing an even more formidable Republican Party of Texas.
This year there was more rhetoric about
stopping the blue wave and George Soros
and less about the challenges facing a Party that should never stop its effort
to build its ranks despite its current formidable numerical success.
By Harvey Kronberg
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