Former Bush Economist Mankiw Says He Quit ‘the Party of Trump’

Greg Mankiw, who served as chief economist to former President George W. Bush, said he quit the Republican party because too many of its members are ignoring Donald Trump’s “misdeeds,” pledging to help Democrats to pick a moderate candidate to defeat him in the 2020 election.

“Too many Republicans in Congress are willing, in the interest of protecting their jobs, to overlook Trump’s misdeeds (just as too many Democrats were for Clinton during his impeachment),” the Harvard economist wrote on his blog. “I have no interest in associating myself with that behavior.”