The Republicans’ new party platform is scary – because it can win | Dustin Guastella and Bhaskar Sunkara

The manifesto rebrands historically liberal stances, like guarding entitlements and growing bluecollar jobs, as Republican

The new Republican platform was released yesterday. Some liberal journalists - the opinion-makers of what has been called the Democrats' shadow party" - dismissed the new platform as a joke". They're wrong. The Republican party platform is scary. Not because it rolls out the usual litany of conservative policy preferences, but precisely because of where it breaks from that orthodoxy.

The new party platform is scary, because it can win.