Grover Norquist Wants Vapers to Save the G.O.P.

As a political trend spotter, the lobbyist Grover Norquist has a formidable record. Three decades ago, he founded Americans for Tax Reform, a fanatical anti-tax group that inspired “60 Minutes” to describe him, years later, as “responsible, more than anyone else, for rewriting the dogma of the Republican Party.” In 1994, he co-authored, with Newt Gingrich, the Contract with America, which became the Party’s central manifesto for the decade, and, later, he was an early backer of Texas governor George W. Bush for President.

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