Former Republican Sens. John Danforth (Mo.), William Cohen (Maine) and Alan Simpson (Wyo.) announced on Tuesday that they are launching a new organization, “Our Republican Legacy,” to facilitate a “comeback” of the traditional principles of their party.
“Recently it has become popular to assert that this traditional brand of Republicanism is dead, replaced by a new populist, radical version,” the GOP lawmakers wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post on Tuesday.
“We disagree,” they continued. “In our view, traditional Republicanism, though currently in eclipse, is no more extinct than the sun was over portions of the country on April 8. And all of us who believe in it must do what we can to ensure its expeditious return.”
The lawmakers said they “are not leaving the party, but instead forming a new organization within it.”
A new "home"
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