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Can Moderate Republicans Survive the Sedition Caucus?

Should we even want them to?

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Jonathan V. Last
2 February 2021∙ Paid
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1. Shark vs. Alligator

This week the Republican party is having a kumite between Liz Cheney and the “moderates” of the party and the sedition caucus.

Let’s agree to some definitions first.

For the purposes of this discussion, we’ll classify as moderate any Republican who acknowledges that Joe…

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