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Republicans In Disarray!
The GOP civil war between moderates and lunatics will fully erupt if Republicans manage to win Congress in November.
[Published first on my substack, The Halfway Café. If you enjoy liberal takes on contemporary politics and foreign policy, subscribe!]
The congressional GOP is a mess strung out on its addiction to MAGA cultural rage, which will either prevent Republicans from winning majorities in one or both houses thanks to extremist, idiot candidates losing winnable seats, or allow the GOP dog to catch the car of Congressional power and be paralyzed by its ongoing civil war between center-right normies who want to help Mitch McConnell subvert democracy quietly and radical legislative terrorists inspired by Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, and January 6th who want to burn down as much of the government as possible.
Will the mainstream media finally start printing “Republicans in Disarray” headlines? If only! I’ll have to do it for them.
The fact is that not only do Republicans not deserve to win Congressional majorities, it would really be bad for them politically, particularly in the Senate.
The Senate at the moment is comprised of more rational, dare I say sane, Republicans who generally know that Trump has been full of…