Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: While the GOP might be moving on from Trump, it isn’t giving up on Trump’s technique of outrage-mongering.
Whether it is critical race theory,going out of circulation or Disney objecting to Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, the MAGA crowd’s sources of distress these days share some familiar features. For starters, they rarely have any connection to actual government policy. That’s either because the scandals don’t exist or because they have to do with actions made by private companies in which government has no business meddling.
Third, these Republican outrages have virtually no impact on the lives of most Americans. Inflation? Climate change? Jobs? Oh, please. These don’t get the base’s blood boiling. Finally, the MAGA outrages have, by design, no solution. There is nothing the government can do about “the war on Christmas” . And the federal government has no power to abolish critical race theory in schools . Precisely because their supporters’ outrage can never be assuaged and their made-up scandals can never be resolved, the stories dominating right-wing media remain endless fodder for pot-stirring.Perhaps it’s progress that the GOP is drifting away from its obsession with Trump.
But so long as one of the two national parties feeds on irrationality, conspiracy theories, victimhood and paranoia, our politics won’t return to normal. We will still lack a system in which both sides compete to present problem-solving agendas to voters. And the maelstrom of anger and victimhood will continue, creating an atmosphere in which any means to an end is justified and political opponents are demonized.
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