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The GOP: No Autopsy, No Exorcism
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The GOP: No Autopsy, No Exorcism

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Charlie Sykes
Apr 07, 2021
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After the 2012 election, the RNC famously commissioned a study that became known as the “autopsy.” After the 2016 election, I suggested in my book, “How the Right Lost Its Mind,” the party needed an exorcism.

But after the 2020 defeat — losing the loss of the presidency, the House, and the Senate — GOP clearly…

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