Pelosi was right about the cult-ish, Trump-loving GOP, speechboy71 writes — but she forgot to mention the upside Republican extremism has for her party.
, “to where you were when you cared about women’s right to choose and you cared about the environment.”She added thatLiberal Democrats accused Pelosi of sanitizing the sordid history of the Republican Party and, even worse, being naïve about the threat that theThe irony of Pelosi’s comments inflaming Democrats is that it's doubtful she truly meant them.
But whether she means it or not, Pelosi’s underlying point about the need for a stronger Republican Party is actually correct. Indeed, there should be nothing terribly controversial about what Pelosi said. In fact, if Democratic activists are as concerned about the degradation of American democracy as I’m sure they are, then they should embrace Pelosi’s words.Democracies function best when its political parties are engaged in democratic competition and competing to win over the electorate with their policy ideas.
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