US Politics
The Loyalty Gauntlet: How Trump’s ‘Kiss of Death’ Ended a Primary and Exposed the GOP’s Democratic Deficit
Paul Dans, a chief architect of Project 2025, has ended his Republican primary challenge to Senator Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. This development underscores the deep and unsettling factionalism within the GOP, where loyalty to Trump and his movement now appears to be a litmus test that can override substantive policy debates and the very health of internal party democracy.
