The Strange New Gop Doctrine

Taegan Goddard, Political Wire
Thu, 04/01/2021 - 5:46am

David Frum: “To appease those cultural blocs, Republican politicians must be willing to sacrifice everything, including what used to be the party’s foundational principles. To protect the gun, or to avoid contradicting the delusions of anti-vaccine paranoiacs, property rights must give way, freedom to operate a business must yield.” “The QAnon-curious Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed the new mentality when she took to Facebook to denounce vaccine passports as ‘corporate communism.’ It sounded crazy.

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