Conservative author David Frum announced Wednesday that he is leaving the Republican Party following President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election.
“Today, I was deregistered as a Republican,” said Frum, a staff writer for The Atlantic. I wrote it on social platform X on wednesday.
Mr. Frum, a former speechwriter for then-President George W. Bush, has become a vocal critic of the former president and his influence on the Republican Party since the 2016 election, even though he has become a vocal critic of the former president and his influence on the Republican Party. I have firmly maintained my affiliation with.
In 2016, Mr. Frum wrote an editorial announcing his reluctant support for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and urging like-minded Republicans to follow suit, writing: You're not doing it for her. Every vote you cast is for the Republic and the Constitution. ”
In 2018, he lamented the party's split into two in an interview on HBO's “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
“The Republican Party is a broken party,” Frum said in a 2018 interview. “And there are people who have served the Republican Party in the past and who volunteer to continue to serve the Republican Party.”
“It's important to understand that something new is going to replace the Republican Party,” he added.
In recent years, Mr. Frum has expressed concern about the state of American democracy. in Works published on Wednesday Following Trump's victory, Frum said that Americans who did not vote for Trump “need to prepare to live in a different America.”
He continued: “A country where millions of our fellow citizens voted for a president who intentionally promotes hatred and division. Someone who lies blatantly, shamelessly, every time he appears in public. I planned to overturn it, and even if I didn't win, I would try again in 2024.”
“Above all, we must learn to live in an America where the overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens have elected a president who despises the most fundamental values and traditions of our democracy, our Constitution, and even our military. Public opinion over the past decade Polls show that Americans are losing faith in their own institutions, but no poll reveals a change in values more clearly than this election. It will be a different kind of country.”
