On Independence Day, former conservative columnist Max Boot wrote in the pages of The Washington Post that it was time for conservatives to dump the Republican Party. Why? Because, in Boot’s words, “You used to belong to a conservative party with a white-nationalist fringe. Now it’s a white-nationalist party with a conservative fringe.”
That’s utterly untrue; there’s no serious data to suggest that the constituency of the Republican Party has changed in any serious way, or that the Trump administration’s policies have been driven by white nationalism, or that the alt-right has done anything but shrink in its influence on the Trump administration since the 2016 election cycle.
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