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The GOP's Brief Prague Spring

Happy Trumpless Monday

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Charlie Sykes
Jan 25, 2021
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I wish I had come up with this analogy, but Jonathan Chait beat me to it. “For a few days, the Republican party appeared to be undergoing a crisis of confidence, if not an outright crack-up,” he writes.

“But instead of a Glasnost for the Republican party, the days after January 6 seem instead to be a Prague Spring — a brief flowering of dissent and ques…

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