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Has Trump’s Republican Party Become a Criminal Enterprise

Trump's purge of all political opponents, including Senator Bill Cassidy, leaves it with no purpose other than helping Trump achieve his lawless goals

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May 31, 2026
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On Saturday, May 16. Trump took revenge on Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy for Cassidy’s vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his second impeachment, for instigating an attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Cassidy thereby became the first GOP senator defeated by a Trump-endorsed candidate in a Republican primary. (Other Republican senators who have stood up to Trump — such as North Carolina’s Thom Tillis and Utah’s Mitt Romney — saw the writing on the wall and didn’t seek reelection.)

Trump’s purge of Cassidy comes in the wake of Trump’s purges of House Republicans who stood up to him, such as Wyoming’s Liz Cheney.

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Trump’s next Republican target in the House was Kentucky representative Thomas Massie, who had the guts to oppose U.S. military involvement in Iran, demand release of the Epstein files, and criticize Trump’s spending bills for adding to the national debt. Massie was defeated by a Trump-backed opponent in the Kentucky primary.

Trump has also purged state legislators who have refused to do his bidding, such as the seven Indiana Republicans who refused to redistrict the state as Trump demanded they do, and who Trump insured were defeated in their recent primaries.

The message is clear to every current or aspiring Republican politician: Be a toady to Trump, or you’re out.

In his concession speech, Cassidy stated the obvious reference to Trump:

“Our country is not about one individual. It is about the welfare of all Americans, and it is about our Constitution. And if someone doesn’t understand that and attempts to control others through using the levers of power, they’re about serving themselves. They’re not about serving us. And that person is not qualified to be a leader.”

Nicely put but sadly irrelevant because Trump — who’s clearly serving himself rather than the American public — now possesses all levers of power in the official Republican Party.

As Republican senator Lindsey Graham said recently on Meet the Press, “There’s no room in this party to destroy [Trump’s] agenda.”

Former generations of Republican politicians had principles, beliefs, ideals. They thought the federal government too large. Or believed it spent too much money. Or was too lenient on criminals. Or was too eager to support the civil rights of Black people. Or any number of issues with which Democrats disagreed.

Today’s Republican Party no longer has any purpose other than achieving whatever Trump wants, which is making Trump richer and more powerful. The GOP is now Trump’s; it is no longer America’s.

Today’s Republican voters, by contrast, are showing increasing frustration with Trump. Those who think of themselves as traditional Republicans don’t like Trump’s expansive use of federal power. 

Those who are fiscally conservative, like Thomas Massie, are upset by Trump’s wanton spending, tax cuts, and soaring debt. “America-first” Republican voters are concerned about Trump’s intrusions into Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and elsewhere. And they want the rest of the Epstein files released.

Yet for elected Republicans, survival now depends on personal loyalty to Trump.

All of which raises a fundamental question: Has the official Republican Party — now nearly purged of anyone willing to reflect the concerns of Republican voters rather than Trump’s will — become complicit in Trump’s criminality? Is it aiding and abetting Trump’s lawlessness?

A case can be made that the official Republican Party is indeed complicit.

For Trump, the first and most basic sign of loyalty to him — and therefore survival as a politician in Trump’s Republican Party — is a willingness to publicly proclaim as truth what we know to be two big lies: that Trump won the 2020 election, and that he did not seek to overturn its results by illegal means. As a result, almost all congressional Republicans are now election deniers.

Trump has also made it clear that loyalty to him bars any criticism of his unlawful immigration dragnet, which has so far resulted in the murders of three U.S. citizens by ICE agents and the detention and deportation, without a hearing, of people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

To Trump, loyalty requires full support of his foreign policy — including the abduction of a foreign leader, an undeclared war with Iran, and the killing on the high seas of people only suspected of smuggling drugs, in violation of international law.

Loyalty also demands unquestioned support for other of his lawless acts — using the Justice Department to prosecute his political opponents, building a mammoth White House ballroom, issuing no-bid contracts to his friends, promoting his family’s businesses and implementing policies favorable to them, accepting gifts from foreign powers, and defying court orders.

Is it fair to conclude from all of this that today’s official Republican Party — the people who are in office because Trump has put them there, or who maintain their office because they back whatever Trump wants — has in effect become a criminal organization, analogous to the mafia or a drug cartel, whose members are blindly loyal to their criminal bosses?

¿Se ha convertido el Partido Republicano de Trump en una empresa criminal?

El sábado 16 de mayo, Trump se vengó del senador por Luisiana, Bill Cassidy, debido al voto que este emitió hace cinco años para declarar culpable a Trump —durante su segundo juicio político— por instigar el ataque al Capitolio de los Estados Unidos.

De este modo, Cassidy se convirtió en el primer senador republicano derrotado por un candidato respaldado por Trump en unas elecciones primarias del Partido Republicano. (Otros senadores republicanos que se han enfrentado a Trump —tales como Thom Tillis, de Carolina del Norte, y Mitt Romney, de Utah— supieron ver las señales de advertencia y no buscaron la reelección).

La purga de Cassidy llevada a cabo por Trump se produce tras las purgas de republicanos de la Cámara de Representantes que se le opusieron, como es el caso de Liz Cheney, de Wyoming.

El siguiente objetivo republicano de Trump en la Cámara fue el representante por Kentucky, Thomas Massie, quien tuvo la valentía de oponerse a la intervención militar estadounidense en Irán, exigir la publicación de los archivos de Epstein y criticar los proyectos de ley de gastos de Trump por contribuir al aumento de la deuda nacional. Massie fue derrotado por un oponente respaldado por Trump en las elecciones primarias de Kentucky.

Trump también ha purgado a legisladores estatales que se han negado a acatar sus órdenes, como los siete republicanos de Indiana que se negaron a rediseñar los distritos electorales del estado tal como Trump exigía, y cuya derrota en sus recientes elecciones primarias Trump se encargó de asegurar.

El mensaje es claro para todo político republicano, ya sea en activo o aspirante: sé un adulador de Trump, o estás fuera.

En su discurso de concesión, Cassidy hizo una referencia obvia a Trump:

«Nuestro país no gira en torno a un solo individuo; gira en torno al bienestar de todos los estadounidenses y en torno a nuestra Constitución. Y si alguien no comprende esto e intenta controlar a los demás utilizando las palancas del poder, lo que busca es servirse a sí mismo. No busca servirnos a nosotros. Y esa persona no está cualificada para ser un líder».

Bien dicho, pero lamentablemente irrelevante, porque Trump —quien claramente se sirve a sí mismo en lugar de al público estadounidense— posee ahora todas las palancas del poder dentro del Partido Republicano oficial.

Tal como afirmó recientemente el senador republicano Lindsey Graham en el programa *Meet the Press*: «No hay cabida en este partido para sabotear la agenda [de Trump]».

Las generaciones anteriores de políticos republicanos tenían principios, creencias e ideales. Consideraban que el gobierno federal era demasiado grande; o creían que gastaba demasiado dinero; o que era demasiado indulgente con los delincuentes; o que mostraba un exceso de celo al apoyar los derechos civiles de la población negra; o cualquier otra de las numerosas cuestiones con las que los demócratas discrepaban.

El Partido Republicano actual ya no tiene otro propósito que lograr todo aquello que Trump desea, lo cual se reduce a hacer que Trump sea más rico y más poderoso. El Partido Republicano (*GOP*) es ahora propiedad de Trump; ya no pertenece a Estados Unidos.

Por el contrario, los votantes republicanos de hoy en día muestran una frustración creciente hacia Trump. Aquellos que se consideran republicanos tradicionales no ven con buenos ojos el uso expansivo que Trump hace del poder federal.

Aquellos que son fiscalmente conservadores —como Thomas Massie— se sienten indignados por el gasto desenfrenado de Trump, sus recortes de impuestos y el vertiginoso aumento de la deuda pública. Los votantes republicanos partidarios de la doctrina «Estados Unidos primero» (*America First*) se muestran inquietos ante las intromisiones de Trump en Irán, Venezuela, Cuba y otros lugares. Y exigen que se hagan públicos el resto de los archivos del caso Epstein.

Sin embargo, para los cargos republicanos electos, la supervivencia depende ahora de su lealtad personal a Trump.

Todo ello plantea una pregunta fundamental: ¿Se ha convertido el Partido Republicano oficial —ahora prácticamente purgado de cualquiera que esté dispuesto a atender las inquietudes de los votantes republicanos en lugar de someterse a la voluntad de Trump— en cómplice de la criminalidad de este último? ¿Está acaso encubriendo y facilitando la conducta al margen de la ley de Trump?

Cabe argumentar que el Partido Republicano oficial es, en efecto, cómplice. Para Trump, la primera y más elemental muestra de lealtad hacia su persona —y, por ende, la clave para la supervivencia política dentro del Partido Republicano de Trump— es la disposición a proclamar públicamente como verdad lo que sabemos que son dos grandes mentiras: que Trump ganó las elecciones de 2020 y que no intentó anular sus resultados por medios ilegales. Como consecuencia, casi la totalidad de los republicanos en el Congreso son ahora negacionistas electorales.

Trump también ha dejado claro que la lealtad hacia su persona prohíbe cualquier crítica a su ilegal redada migratoria, la cual ha derivado, hasta la fecha, en el asesinato de tres ciudadanos estadounidenses a manos de agentes del ICE, así como en la detención y deportación —sin derecho a audiencia— de personas sospechosas de encontrarse en Estados Unidos de manera ilegal.

Para Trump, la lealtad exige un apoyo total a su política exterior, lo que incluye el secuestro de un líder extranjero, una guerra no declarada contra Irán y el asesinato en alta mar de personas de las que solo se sospecha que trafican drogas, en violación del derecho internacional.

La lealtad exige también un respaldo incuestionable a otros de sus actos al margen de la ley: utilizar el Departamento de Justicia para perseguir a sus opositores políticos, construir un inmenso salón de baile en la Casa Blanca, adjudicar contratos sin licitación a sus amigos, promocionar los negocios de su familia e implementar políticas que los favorezcan, aceptar regalos de potencias extranjeras y desacatar órdenes judiciales.

¿Es justo concluir, a partir de todo esto, que el Partido Republicano oficial de hoy —es decir, aquellas personas que ocupan cargos públicos porque Trump las ha colocado allí, o que conservan sus puestos porque respaldan cualquier cosa que Trump desee— se ha convertido, en la práctica, en una organización criminal análoga a la mafia o a un cártel de la droga, cuyos miembros guardan una lealtad ciega a sus jefes criminales?

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