Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: Let’s Get This Party Started Featuring Lanhee Chen

What Is a Republican These Days?

Matters of Policy & PoliticsOctober 13, 2017
Area 45: Let’s Get This Party Started Featuring Lanhee Chen

America’s GOP dominates at all levels of government—state legislative, gubernatorial, congressional, presidential—yet Republicans have struggled, quite publicly, to come to terms with the party’s direction during the era of Trump. Lanhee Chen, the Hoover Institution’s David and Diane Steffy Research Fellow, discusses the Republican identity crisis, the lingering effects on the GOP brand, and the party’s ability to produce change in Washington.

Cast

Lanhee J. Chen

Lanhee J. Chen

Bill Whalen

Bill Whalen

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