The Republicans are riven with factionalism and outright, no holds barred rivalry:
The McConnell-aligned super PAC Senate Leadership Fund has spent more than $5 million in ads attacking Tshibaka in a bid to help Murkowski win reelection. [WaPo]
This appears to be overwhelming the toxic team politics stricture of the Republican Party, and this is no surprise. The current inhabitants of the Republican Party have mostly pushed out the former, middle of the road, inhabitants through the RINO (“Republican in Name Only”) accusation tactic, and are motivated by greed (see: Trump), social prestige, and acquisition fever.
Of course, we’ve been seeing this for years, such as the attempted, and perhaps successful, RINOing of now-former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), and the bloody Republican primary in Alabama for Jeff Session’s open Senate seat, in which extremist Rep Mo Brooks was accused of being an ISIS supporter.
But when it happens between McConnell and Trump, two of the top political leaders, you have to wonder if it signals another step in the dissolution of the Republican Party.
