Party members

Trump in just four years revamped the republican party and many of the establishment GOP turned away from Trump. These old time republicans like Bill Crystal, George Will, Mitt Romney and Rockafeller types became never trumpers. One explanation has to do with Trumps background. First off he was not a politician. He was in the construction business. He never sided with the bankers who loaned him the money for his building and he saw them as money hungry vultures. His friends were the construction workers who built the buildings. He understood how they suffered from globalization as they watched manufacturing jobs go overseas. The new republican party became the party of the working man at the same time that college educated Whites along with Wall Street bankers moved toward the democrats. In just a few short years the base of each party exchanged places.