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The GOP's Delusions
Today's Republicans are hardly the first party to spend more time worrying about betrayal from their colleagues than from their opponents on the other side; it's a dynamic nearly as old as politics itself. But they truly have created not just a politics of anger, but a politics utterly removed from any substance at all. Policy goals may be the nominal justification for all the anger, but in truth nobody bothers figuring out how they might be achieved. The performance is its own end.
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It isn't often that the word flummoxed comes to mind. But, I am. It seems true that there are many in the Republican party who only seek to destroy the government, the republic, that they swore to protect. I can't understand as much as I try to find the middle, the compromise, the incrementalism that is the keystone of how politics work in the US. What is their goal?
Grover Norquist summarized their goals in 2001:
My first thought was to defend. My second thought was reduction, and, the third, acceptance of the quote.