Again and again, though, a lot of Republicans have made deliberate choices that make a broad coalition impossible.
Elevating candidates who pledge their fealty to Trump and adopt his grievances as their own, even though he has been a consistently unpopular figure throughout his political career, is one such choice.So is taking an approach to politics that assumes that you can purge your way to victory. Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for governor of Arizona last year, told McCain Republicans to go away. They did, which is why she is not the governor of Arizona.
Both Republicans and Democrats can fall into this type of Leninism. It’s part of why neither party wins landslides anymore. Each side’s activists see the other’s radicalism and missteps as a license to move further from public opinion. If Democrats put themselves in danger by stoking inflation, it means Republicans can renominate Trump and stay competitive. If Republicans are about to renominate Trump, Democrats can get away with dismissing concerns about the border.
But the small-is-beautiful tendency does not affect both parties equally. Republican politicians are probably more geared toward individualism, and less toward solidarity, than Democratic ones are. Republicans in our era regard one institution after another as hostile to them — sometimes rightly — and have therefore become less interested in running them effectively. The Democrats never ousted a speaker of theirs when they had a narrow majority. They never even came close.
Because the vast majority of House Republicans wanted to keep McCarthy, they are understandably now expressing interest in institutional reform. It is perverse to allow a speaker to be removed without having been defeated by someone who had more votes. But the institution chiefly in need of fixing is not the U.S. House. It’s the Republican Party.
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