Kevin McCarthy’s GOP extremism problem is a very bad omen

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.speechboy71: It’s easy to say that America has never been this divided but less noted is that we’ve never been so narrowly divided.

installed off the House floor after Jan. 6. And while Senate Republicans were happy to criticize Trump’s recent meeting with a pair of antisemitic cretins, McCarthy refused to do so — no doubt in part because most of his members reside in districts where Trump remains popular.

After three straight national elections, each of which has been called the “most important of our lifetimes,” neither party has gained any significant advantage. This is perhaps the greatest irony of America’s narrow political divide. Because the parties are so indebted to their extreme wings, it’s that much harder for them to pivot to the political center for fear of losing the true believers. Since most Democrats and Republicans run and win in districts that are either solidly blue or solidly red, there is little incentive to do anything but be partisan.

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