Michael Gerson has recognized something I’ve been talking about for a while, and that is the tendency to chase moderate members out of the Republican Party using the charge of RINO will be, well, self-defeating.
The class of departing Republicans includes a few who won’t be missed. (Hint: One has a last name that begins with “Rohrabache-”.) But many of the House losses came in suburban districts that required outreach beyond the Trump-intoxicated base. Nationally, Democrats won about 70 percent of votes cast in suburban House districts. This means the political grim reaper came for some of the most reasonable elements within the party. This process is the reverse of natural selection — call it the survival of the witless.
[WaPo]
Gerson’s a neo-conservative, and another of a group of conservatives that has little use for the current incarnation of the GOP. I don’t think much of neocons myself, as they seem somewhat unrealistic. After all, they did start & cheerlead the Iraq War. But it’s good to see another conservative recognize the pathological nature of a key GOP process.
