How a New Class of Republicans Could Push America to the Right – By Blake Hounshell (The New York Times) / Aug 11, 2022
Much of the attention paid to Donald Trump’s favorite candidates running in the midterms has focused — rightly! — on their support for relitigating the 2020 election. (Which, for those still unsure, was not stolen.)
But across a range of policy issues, including abortion, climate change, same-sex marriage and education, Trump’s MAGA warriors have taken positions that put them on the fringes of the Republican Party — let alone the nation as a whole.
The usual caveats apply: Candidates often say things to win a primary that they then jettison or downplay when facing general-election voters.
But the nature of political partisanship in America has changed over the last decade or so, raising doubts about whether that conventional wisdom still holds. If they are elected in November, the Trump crowd could shove American politics sharply rightward.
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