GOP needs to embrace MAGA, fight ‘wokeism' to win elections, report claims

FIRST ON FOX: The Republican Party needs to embrace the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement and fight "wokeism" if it wants to win elections again -- that’s according to a new report by a conservative group that has conducted its own autopsy of the 2020 election.

In a statement accompanying the release of the report, APP President Terry Schilling cites the famous 2012 "autopsy" report -- in which the Republican National Committee (RNC) called for a number of changes that were eventually rejected by the candidacy of President Trump -- and warns that some Republicans are attempting to return to that in the wake of Trump’s 2020 defeat. "Rather than blindly following elite conventional wisdom, we believe Republicans would be much better served by carefully analyzing what actually happened in 2020 and drawing the appropriate lessons from it," Schilling says. "This is the purpose of our report, and our conclusion – derived from a close study of the election results – is this: although Trump was the victim of unprecedented hostility from our country’s most powerful, leftist-dominated institutions, his attacks on Democrats’ wokeism were incredibly effective and helped broaden the party’s base."