Republican Rift Laid Bare.
Sen. McConnell and Trump are in a tiff that is pitting MAGA Republicans and traditional Republicans against one another. (Politico)
“If we get into personality squibbles and fights, we are going to be in a challenging place in 2022 and 2024 — which means America will be embracing socialism because we can’t get our act together on the right,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the other 2022 Republican to express support for McConnell as leader, said Wednesday on Fox News, adding that Trump is “the most powerful political figure on either side.”
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The MAGA wing of the GOP and the traditional (sane) wing of the party will have to come together at some point. Once the Trump euphoria that his followers experienced wears off the parties two wing have to come together to form a proper opposition party based on sound judgment and facts. The nation needs two parties going forward because one party rule will never work in the long run for a large extraordinarily complex democratic society. A functioning society will not last long with one political party locked into a cult of personality intent on disseminating one conspiracy lie after the other.
