'Thugocracy': Ex-Bush speechwriter lays out ways Trump trashed 'constitutional conservatism'

'Thugocracy': Ex-Bush speechwriter lays out ways Trump trashed 'constitutional conservatism'

Conservative Peter Wehner, now 64, was a speechwriter in the administrations of three Republican presidents: Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. But Wehner's relationship with the Republican Party started to go sour when, in January 2016, he wrote a New York Times op-ed headlined, "Why I Will Never Vote for Donald Trump." And unlike all the prominent Republicans who were major Trump critics in 2016 but went on to become strong su…