Trump has refashioned GOP as a 'revolutionary party' – with global repercussions: op-ed

When it comes to winning back the White House in 2024, Donald Trump will rely on his "chaos campaign," which he uses to direct threats of violence and intimidation against the MAGA movement’s perceived enemies," writes Salon's Chauncey Devega.

According to Devega, Trump's chaos strategy has also been embraced by the Republican Party and the conservative movement in general, which seeks to delegitimize the very idea of government.

Speaking to Salon, journalist Katherine Stewart claimed that the Republican Party, “Has largely abandoned conservatism and has now refashioned itself as a revolutionary party."

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"It’s not interested in preserving key American institutions. A segment of the party doesn’t even care about governing. ... The extreme faction of the Republican Party is aiming to blow up the system and take control of whatever remains," Stewart said, adding that the Republican Party can no longer be simply described as "conservative."

And there's the worst terror attack in Israel's history that took place over the weekend. Instead of rallying behind President Biden in support for Israel after the attack, "Trump and other leading Republicans have instead chosen to attack and undermine Biden’s leadership in this moment of global crisis," Devega writes.

"The two have often been identified as ideological allies," writes Devega about Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But, "in an interview with Brian Kilmeade of Fox News on Wednesday night, Trump said that Netanyahu 'has been hurt very badly because of what’s happened here. He was not prepared. He was not prepared and Israel was not prepared. And under Trump, they wouldn’t have had to be prepared.'"

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Devega contends that this is all a symptom of Trump's "malignant narcissism," making himself the center of the Israel story by telling his supporters at a West Palm Beach rally on Wednesday that the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah was “very smart" and vowing that he would "never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down," which "was a very terrible thing."

Devega concludes that when a person like Trump tells us who they are, we should believe them. "Avoidance and denial is not an adequate defense strategy; such behavior will not save us."

Read the full op-ed over at Salon.