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The GOP, Radicalism and the Media
If you watched the Fareed Zakariah special on CNN, you likely learned something. He did explain in some depth how the Republican Party went from a normal party to a radical right white nationalist party. This is especially the case if you have not been paying attention to this dynamic until recently. The media is late in reporting this by about a decade, at least. Why? They had the delusion that they could reach one-third of Americans who believe CNN is a propaganda outlet, or worst, a front for the global communist (read Jewish) takeover. There is very little CNN, or other media outlets could do to reach these people. Why? Some of them entered this twilight zone in the 1990s, and they progressively pulled friends and family into the far-right.
This is exactly why you get a national party purging people who are hard-core conservatives, like Liz Cheney, while electing a basket of nuts to national leadership. At this point, Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, and Elise Stefanik are part of the Cult of Trump. In the best of cases, they fear a radicalized base that they enabled. Worst, they drank the Kool-Aid.
This is exactly why John Boehner and Paul Ryan left the House speakership and politics. They could not control these radicalized Republicans who are also openly racist. They could not deal with a white supremacist movement that is nativist and sees everybody who…