Upcoming presidential election and the controversial personality and views of Republicans nominee have created a new political atmosphere and puzzlement to some extends, not only to the general public but also for Republicans themselves. "How The 'Stupid Party' created Donald Trump" is a great article was written by Max Boot published in "The New York Times", which briefly explains about G.O.P’s old days and the changes led to recent populism.
The writer of the article is Max Boot. A senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, foreign policy adviser to the presidential campaigns of John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Marco Rubio. He believes that historically Republicans rather than running away from their anti-intellectual label embraced it for their own political purposes. Boot explains that Republican leaders haven’t been demonstrably dumber than Democrats, so the embrace of anti-intellectualism has been, to a large extent, a put-on, at least until recent years.
The article gives the readers examples from former Republican presidents and how G.O.P. briefly became known as the “party of ideas”.
Writer at the end concludes that in the recent year's talk-radio hosts and television personalities have taken over the conservative movement that once belonged to thinkers and they caused the arrival of populism such as “Tea Party” or Trump candidacy.
