"There is a collective blame to be shared by those of us who have created the modern Republican Party that has so egregiously betrayed the principles it claimed to represent," writes Stuart Stevens, a consultant who spent decades working for Republicans https://nyti.ms/308ugPp 
How do you abandon deeply held beliefs about character, personal responsibility, foreign policy and the national debt in a matter of months? You don’t. The obvious answer is those beliefs weren’t deeply held, writes @stuartpstevens http://nyti.ms/308ugPp 
Mr. Trump has served a useful purpose by exposing the deep flaws of a major American political party, says @stuartpstevens. He has made it impossible to ignore the long-developing fault lines of the Republican Party. http://nyti.ms/308ugPp 
"This collapse of a major political party as a moral governing force is unlike anything we have seen in modern American politics." http://nyti.ms/308ugPp 
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