Elias Isquith — The Times thinks the GOP civil war is over and the establishment has won. Here's why that's total nonsense

Here we go again: The media starts pushing the “moderate GOP” myth.…

As the Times piece makes clear, the conflict, more often than not, wasn’t over who the candidate would be, but rather how they’d present themselves and what they would say. Iowa’s Joni Ernst, for example, is just as extreme as McDaniel, flirting as she does with conspiracy theories and anti-choice absolutism. But the difference between McDaniel and Ernst is that while the former was the kind of conservative who let his wingnut flag fly, the latter was comfortable answering questions about her beliefs by responding, essentially, that she’d rather not say. Same thing goes for Colorado’s Cory Gardner, who’s currently getting a standing ovation from the political press for being so good at saying so little.

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The Times thinks the GOP civil war is over and the establishment has won. Here's why that's total nonsense
Elias Isquith