Despite their differences, the Republican presidential field found unity in the belief that what America needs is a stronger authoritarian hand ruling over the people.
. In retrospect that seems like a shrewd decision, because nobody who took the stage in California emerged stronger for their efforts. What the American people saw at the Reagan Presidential Library was a Republican Party in full-on fracture, where none of the feuding candidates could lay claim to a constituency large enough to be taken seriously in the face of Trump’s dominating polling lead.
Faced with the increasingly public brawls between Republicans’ far-right flank and their establishment base—a battle also unfolding as Congress weighs a potential government shutdown—few of the candidates on stage even bothered to frame their campaigns around coherent policy ideas. Those few individuals excepted, Wednesday’s proceedings quickly devolved into a sort of grievance Olympics.
This GOP is fixated not on building a better future but on settling scores both foreign and domestic without concern for the long-term consequences.sniped at Vivek Ramaswamy after the first-time candidate’s particularly rambling answer to a question about TikTok and national security. The back-and-forth marked an escalation in Haley’s battle with Ramaswamy; Haley’s team clearly felt that if Republican voters liked her attacks on Ramaswamy during the first debate, they’d certainly love even more of the same, delivered with even sharper elbows.
But in a sign of just how valueless the modern Republican Party is, Haley’s critics were quick to note that she held a much brighter opinion of Ramaswamy only a few months ago. In a
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