Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass on Wednesday announced that he has officially left the Republican Party, invoking a version of former President Reagan’s famous quote: “I didn’t leave the Republican Party; the Party left me.”
Haass, a veteran diplomat who worked under multiple presidential administrations, tweeted Wednesday that he had changed his voter registration to “no party affiliation” after 40 years as a member of the Republican Party.
“I worked for Reagan & Bush 41 & 43. But today’s Rep Party no longer embraces the policies & principles that led me to join it,” Haass wrote.
“To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, I didn’t leave the Republican Party; the Party left me,” he added, referencing the reasoning Reagan gave after switching from the Democratic to the Republican Party in 1962.
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Prominent veteran GOP diplomat quits Republican Party citing Ronald Reagan on his way out https://t.co/AHvbqVDJ2Q pic.twitter.com/UiIatBvcPU
— The Hill (@thehill) February 11, 2021
In response: I made this change some 6 months ago when I concluded Trumpism was less an aberration for the Rep party than its new abnormal. I didnt announce it b/c I considered the change to be a mostly private matter, but am doing so now given the enormity of recent events.
— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) February 10, 2021
Said the same thing to conservative friends when I left the GOP in 2012. I only came back to vote for Ted Cruz in the 2016 primary in PA, but when he lost to Trump, I went back to being an independent. The party had been swirling the bowl before Trump ran for president. He has just about finished the party off.
Bravo to Mr. Haass.
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