What are its new values, principles, and positions? Bombast, threats, cult of personality, and triangulation is not back bone. At best, it's populism. If that's the new republican party, I really will be done with them.
Sounds as if you are implying there was something wrong with the old principles? The only thing that went wrong with the principles is they were never followed. They were nothing but campaign slogans to the vast majority of (R)'s.