Is Trump merely a symptom of GOP decline? Dana Milbank answered your questions.

Washington Post opinion columnist Dana Milbank answered reader questions on his latest Opinions Essay about how Republicans became Destructionists. In the essay, Milbank notes milestones along the party’s path of destruction — a path that he says goes much further back than President Donald Trump.

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