(CNN) To assume lies would sink House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is to misunderstand the nature of today's Republican Party: They actually demonstrate his credentials to lead it.
That's not merely because Donald Trump remains the dominant GOP figure. The former President lies incessantly, and his aberrant behavior compels fellow Republicans to lie about him.
The problem runs deeper than one man. For a minority party joining blue-collar voters driven by cultural resentment with affluent donors fixed on the bottom line, gaining and wielding power requires dissembling beyond the conventional equivocation that politicians in all parties have always used to amass popular support.
One of the GOP's most successful political consultants of recent decades issued that judgment in a confessional 2020 memoir. Stuart Stevens titled his book: "It Was All a Lie."
One clear policy example is tax cuts. Like other GOP candidates in 2016, Trump promised that his tax plan would benefit the middle class, not the rich.
M00n on May 2nd, 2022 at 00:43 UTC »
And since Hannity was outed as an arm of Trump.... The latest from Fox: There's a banner on Fox that reads 'Leftist media entangled with Democratic Party' and the host is former Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy and the guest is former Bush White House spokesperson Dana Perino.
It all lies all the time.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1520916044923252741
Nano_Burger on May 2nd, 2022 at 00:43 UTC »
"Today's?"
Iraqi WMDs beg to differ.
kugkug on May 2nd, 2022 at 00:41 UTC »
To assume lies would sink House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is to misunderstand the nature of today’s Republican Party: They actually demonstrate his credentials to lead it.
That’s not merely because Donald Trump remains the dominant GOP figure. The former President lies incessantly, and his aberrant behavior compels fellow Republicans to lie about him.
The problem runs deeper than one man. For a minority party joining blue-collar voters driven by cultural resentment with affluent donors fixed on the bottom line, gaining and wielding power requires dissembling beyond the conventional equivocation that politicians in all parties have always used to amass popular support.
One of the GOP’s most successful political consultants of recent decades issued that judgment in a confessional 2020 memoir. Stuart Stevens titled his book: “It Was All a Lie.”