Jonathan Chait notes a new poll that shows the Republican party “is an extremist outlier in comparison with major conservative parties in other democracies.”
“Supporters of the British Conservative party were split almost evenly between fearing cultural change and fearing right-wing extremism. Supporters of the Christian Democratic parties in Germany deemed the far right a much larger threat. But Trump voters, on the other hand, took a dramatically more conservative stance, deeming the cultural left a bigger threat than the far right by overwhelming margins.”
“Indeed, if you want a comparison to the Republican perspective, you can only find it in a far-right party like Germany’s AfD, an extremist faction that has combined attacks on immigration with unsettling revisionism around the condemnation of the Third Reich that has been a foundation of Germany’s postwar political consensus.”
Politicalwire….
McCarthy is trying to unite Republicans by tolerating hate speech. Mostly, it seems to be working with some very minor exceptions.
Yes
Sad but true.