Saturday, January 23, 2021
Opinion | Want to understand the GOP’s problem? Look at its newly elected extremists. - The Washington Post
... But if you were a serious-minded Republican who really did want to spend your time carefully studying issues and meticulously crafting legislation to address them, what would you think your party actually values right now?
The answer is pretty clear: What sells in today's GOP is performative lib-owning. If you can find issues that activate grievance and tribal identification on the right, then put on a show of angrily channeling what the base is feeling, no matter how misinformed or absurd those beliefs, that's how you draw attention to yourself...
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