How Trump Took Over The Republican Party.
Donald Trump arrived as a populist third party candidate where he packed stadiums with his Make America Great Again or MAGA rallies in 2016. He took over the Republican Party while openly saying that he was not a Republican, but because he was a Conservative he ran as a Republican. Before the first midterm of his presidency he used the primary process of 2018 to get rid of Republicans that opposed him. The Republicans In Name Only, or RINOs as they became known refused to get on board with Trump and kept getting primaried. Even after he was no longer president he kept doing it. Every 2 years he primaried multiple Republicans until everyone in the House of Representatives was either handpicked by him, or learned to play along, and Mike Johnson was finally elected Speaker of The House in the fall of 2023, at which point Trump controlled the House even though he was not even president. Trump also appointed about as many Appellate Court judges in 4 ye...