The real disarray: Republicans imploding over Trump loyalty tests and outrageous behavior
Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY - Yesterday 1:10 PM
Republicans are headed for a knock-down drag-out primary May 24 in Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp – who last year resisted President Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn his state’s win for Democrat Joe Biden – has just learned he’ll be facing off against Trump ally David Perdue, who lost his Senate seat this year in part because Trump's lawyers said the election was rigged and urged Republicans not to vote. So it’s time for another round of “Democrats in disarray,” right?
The double standard is absolutely maddening. “Imploding Republicans” isn’t nearly as catchy as “Democrats in disarray,” but by rights it should be dominating the news every day. Because that’s pretty much how often GOP implosions happen.
Republicans are bitterly split over whether Trump is a force for good or evil in their party, whether he should have been impeached once, twice or never, whether his role in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack should be investigated in full or glossed over as a nothingburger, whether he should run in 2024 and even whether he won the last election, as he still falsely insists he did.
I'll take Democratic disarray any day
And with Trump setting the tone, Republican disarray is like World Wrestling Entertainment, except meaner, with less alliteration and more potential for real-life harm.
It's Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert joking about a Muslim colleague being a “jihad squad” terrorist, South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace criticizing Boebert, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calling Mace “trash” and saying she and Trump think Mace should be primaried, and Mace responding: "All I can say about Marjorie Taylor Greene is bless her f------ heart."
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A Republican governor does one basic thing – uphold Biden’s victory in a state Biden won – and his reward is abuse and a primary opponent recruited by Trump. Thirteen House Republicans do one constructive thing – vote for a bipartisan infrastructure bill – and get branded as traitors who should lose their committee seats and face primary challenges. Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar posts an anime video of himself killing New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden, and only two Republicans vote to censure him. A few days after the Michigan school shooting, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie posts a Christmas card of his family brandishing guns, draws critiques from all sides and tries to get a conservative libertarian editor fired.
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