Power Struggle Intensifies Inside the GOP

Washington Post: “The central question now hovering over America’s political landscape is whether one of its two major parties will allow itself to function as an extension of QAnon and other online conspiracy movements that have taken hold with a vocal segment of the GOP, or if it can emerge from the Trump era as a potential governing coalition built around ideas and some shared agreement on facts.”

“The tensions carry echoes of the tea party uprising that powered the Republican takeover of Congress a decade ago when grass roots activists clashed with establishment leadership and pushed the party to the right.”

“But the movement exposed by the Capitol riot and its aftermath has taken a far darker and anti-democratic turn.”