Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.: Kevin McCarthy is caught in Trump’s vicious cycle
with a white-supremacist antisemite? So do I. But there are deep structural reasons for what many of us see as the moral rot inside the GOP. Let’s call it the Trump Vicious Cycle — vicious being the operative word in many senses.Viewed from outside the party, it is easy to say that Republicans should toss the former president overboard. He probably cost the party control of the Senate with his candidate picks. He was a drag on the party in many closely contested House races.
this year discussing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he said, “They compare Putin to Hitler like it’s a bad thing.” He thought this was funny.McCarthy did say the obligatory thing: “I don’t think anybody should have a meeting with Nick Fuentes.” But he also tried to get Trump off the hook, saying – falsely — that the former president had condemned Fuentes “four times.”
Still, even McConnell limited himself to that “highly unlikely” formulation. How about “never”? How about saying the guy’s name?
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