In the big picture, Rick Perry’s blistering criticism of Donald Trump today as “a toxic mix of demagoguery and nonsense” reveals the deep fault lines within the Republican Party that the 2016 presidential election is going to put enormous strain on. In the small picture, Perry really, really needs to qualify as one of the 10 candidates in the first GOP primary debate next month.
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