Trump’s Republican Party must regain its moral compass, or dissolve

Latin View

Here’s what’s most troubling about the prominent Republicans who have deserted Donald Trump because of the video in which he made revolting remarks about women: Many of those same people stood by him for more than a year while he made almost daily statements demeaning Hispanics, as if that were OK.

Something has gone fundamentally wrong with the Republican Party. From a practical standpoint, the party — which has been hijacked by right-wing white nationalists fed with a constant stream of conspiracy theories by Fox News — has ignored one of the main lessons of its