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The radicalization of the GOP

And the death of Western Republican pragmatism

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Nov 22, 2021
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THE NEWS: Rep. Paul Gosar, an Arizona Republican, tweets an animation of himself killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Harriet Hageman—a Sagebrush Rebel lawyer and proponent of transferring public lands to private hands—is gunning for arch-conservative Rep. Liz Cheney’s House seat, because the latter failed to show adequate fealty to Donald Trump. And …

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