To hear the political press tell it, the Republican Party is forever at war with itself.
The story goes like this: The collapse of the mortgage market followed by Barack Obama’s election to the presidency was a prelude to a Republican civil war. The rise of the Tea Party and its insurgents, we were told, constituted a Republican civil war. Mitt Romney’s 2012 loss was thought to be the prelude to a Republican civil war. The Republican civil war really took off in 2014, when (of all things) the U.S. chamber of commerce deployed its divisions to the fight. And of course, Donald Trump’s ascension to lead the GOP was deemed a Republican civil war.
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