Ben Rhodes on the “steady radicalization of the Republican Party and the trivialization of politics, particularly the way it is covered by US media”

Ben Rhodes on the “steady radicalization of the Republican Party and the trivialization of politics, particularly the way it is covered by US media”

The rise of far-right populism (the “Tea Party,” Trump/Trumpism, etc.) in the United States over the past several years of course has multiple causes. Obviously, white racist backlash to our country’s first African-American president, Barack Obama, and also to progress...