Opinion by E.J. Dionne, Jr.: Collins’s lonely voice on Jackson shows how extreme the GOP has become
The conventional view of today’s GOP is true as far as it goes: that Donald Trump’s enduring popularity with the party’s core voters forces reasonable Republicans to twist themselves into moral pretzels.
They may signal now and again that they realize Trump is a dangerous liar, but they know they can’t get entirely crosswise with theStory continues below advertisement Moreover, the energy in the party remains with the extremists, judging by many of this year’s primaries. Look at the GOP nomination battle for the seat of retiring Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman, a relatively moderate conservative.on a sprightly tour through what he called “the greatest hits of conservative fantasy” that rang out during last week’s debate among Portman’s would-be successors: “Massive ballot-harvesting operations in urban areas. Jail time for Dr. Anthony Fauci.
A statement from three-time Senate candidate Josh Mandel caught the mood: “For all the RINOs out there and all the media elites out there, the 2020 election was stolen from Donald J. Trump.”Yet while it has a high profile today, the far right has deep roots in Republican history. Recall the heyday of the John Birch Society in the early 1960s. That’s when the ideological wars over the Supreme Court were really launched — not, as conservatives claim, with the Senate fight over Judge Robert H.
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