The Strange New GOP Doctrine

David Frum: “To appease those cultural blocs, Republican politicians must be willing to sacrifice everything, including what used to be the party’s foundational principles. To protect the gun, or to avoid contradicting the delusions of anti-vaccine paranoiacs, property rights must give way, freedom to operate a business must yield.”

“The QAnon-curious Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed the new mentality when she took to Facebook to denounce vaccine passports as ‘corporate communism.’ It sounded crazy. But if you understand that she interprets communism to mean ‘any interference in the right of people like me to do whatever we want, regardless of the rights of others’—then, yeah, the property rights of corporations will indeed look to her like a force of communism.”