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As part of CBS’s hour-long special on Super Tuesday, Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan took stock of what had transpired in the Republican presidential race and remarked that, sadly, she “believe[s] we are seeing a great political party shatter before our eyes” with the rise of Donald Trump.
Moments after fellow panelist Jamelle Bouie of Slate blamed the rise of Trump on “the fruit of a lot of backlash politics, a lot of resentment, racially and otherwise,” Face the Nation host John Dickerson touted the disarray in the GOP as in contrast to a Democratic Party that’s “moving towards the center.”