Yesterday I ran this interview with Matthew Dowd, who spearheaded former President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign and now wants to be the Democratic lieutenant governor of Texas.

The interview raised a question that I want to propose to you for this open discussion thread: What do you think is the proper place and role for Republican defectors to the Democratic Party?

Or, to cite a trenchant tweet I noticed, are Republican converts gentrifying the Democratic Party?

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He re-elected George W. Bush. Now he wants Democrats to elect him

The most fortunate refugees on earth are those defecting from the Republican Party. You see them on the news; you enjoyed their Lincoln Project ads; maybe you bought the book one wrote to cash in on telling the truth now that it was of scant use to us…

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