Republicans are now fully the party of Trump, defending his increasingly erratic whims and tweets.
You can laugh at the GOP's fecklessness, but at least the party has an establishment that has attempted to steer a conventional course.
Long before Trump arrived on the political scene, Republican leaders tried to prevent extreme candidates from emerging in primaries and wrote a report urging the party to moderate on immigration.
In Trump's first year in office, advisers effectively steered him towards appointing conservative judges and securing tax cuts in hopes of unifying a fractured party.
If the Republican establishment has proven incapable of shaping its party, some formerly reasonable members of the Democratic establishment are now eagerly surrendering to the whims of their own increasingly dogmatic base.
Even though they lack the votes to prevent Kavanaugh's confirmation, party leaders are adopting tactics that will only undermine their chances of winning back power.
Announcing you're unwilling to hear out the nominee's views in a hearing and threatening to purge Kavanaugh's Democratic allies from the party is as self-destructive as it gets.
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/670197?unlock=WN9BSVQDOPZAGYZ4
You can laugh at the GOP's fecklessness, but at least the party has an establishment that has attempted to steer a conventional course.
Long before Trump arrived on the political scene, Republican leaders tried to prevent extreme candidates from emerging in primaries and wrote a report urging the party to moderate on immigration.
In Trump's first year in office, advisers effectively steered him towards appointing conservative judges and securing tax cuts in hopes of unifying a fractured party.
If the Republican establishment has proven incapable of shaping its party, some formerly reasonable members of the Democratic establishment are now eagerly surrendering to the whims of their own increasingly dogmatic base.
Even though they lack the votes to prevent Kavanaugh's confirmation, party leaders are adopting tactics that will only undermine their chances of winning back power.
Announcing you're unwilling to hear out the nominee's views in a hearing and threatening to purge Kavanaugh's Democratic allies from the party is as self-destructive as it gets.
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/670197?unlock=WN9BSVQDOPZAGYZ4
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