{"id":160266,"date":"2022-10-09T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=160266"},"modified":"2022-10-09T08:20:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T08:20:29","slug":"republicans-must-move-past-trump-for-sake-of-the-party-s-future-and-the-nation-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/republicans-must-move-past-trump-for-sake-of-the-party-s-future-and-the-nation-s","title":{"rendered":"Republicans must move past Trump for sake of the party&#8217;s future &#8211; and the nation&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: This is the first in a series of columns exploring the future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. Donald Trump , for more than six years, has dominated the Republican Party &#8211;&nbsp;dictating its positions on policy, rewarding&nbsp;his loyalists and punishing dissenters. Today, more than 20 months after the former president begrudgingly left the White House, the Grand Old Party&nbsp;remains largely under Trump&#8217;s control. Trump&#8217;s leadership has produced mixed results&nbsp;for Republicans and conservatives.&nbsp;The Trump wave, particularly in swing states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, undoubtedly pushed the red tide to new heights in 2016. In&nbsp;2017, after Trump&#8217;s upset victory over Hillary Clinton the previous November, Republicans&nbsp;held more power on the federal and state levels combined than at any point in nearly a century . Trump&#8217;s political strength&nbsp;waned&nbsp;quickly, however. Republicans lost the House in 2018 , and two years later, voters rejected Trump&#8217;s bid for a second term and gave Democrats control of the Senate . Opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a country with only two major political parties, Republicans and Democrats, the health and direction of each is of vital importance to all citizens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[42,41,43],"class_list":["post-160266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-potus","tag-u-s-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}