The GOP Civil War That Doesn’t Exist

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We’re seeing a lot of GOP in disarray stories. They’re entertaining and individually contain some valuable information. But the GOP is not in disarray. There’s no GOP civil war. Indeed, for a party that just lost the presidency and the one house of Congress the party is united to an almost historically unprecedented degree. And it’s getting more united, not less, as we go forward. The only commotion are the punitive expeditions being mounted against the handful of renegades who briefly turned on Trump by supporting impeachment or making other conspicuous gestures of disloyalty.

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