Crash Course: Enough with the Mitt Romney adulation! The GOP hasn't been a serious "policy" party in decades

"Traditional" Republican views on everything from taxes to abortion failed, clearing a path for a Trumpist takeover [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5r4-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvYm1rcGphNDVyaS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWt3YjRxOWVueTBXA3NwY0IKZPpBOQRlK9GJVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5r4-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvcjNldHgydnUwby8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWt3YjRxOWVueTAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZPpBOQRlK9GJVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Enough with the Mitt Romney adulation! The GOP hasn't been a serious "policy" party in decades From Amanda Marcotte: The problem with all this Romney love is not that I personally feel sexually harassed by it. It's that it fails to account for how Romney and other "traditional" Republicans are responsible for the rise of Trump and the MAGA movement. And not just because Romney and his ilk were only too happy to play along with Trump, even as he was [pushing the racist "birther" conspiracy theory](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5r4-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZG94ZHRzNW1uei8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWt3YjRxOWVueTAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZPpBOQRlK9GJVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) during the 2012 election cycle. It's because they spent decades married to policy views that range from wildly unpopular to bat guano terrible, making it easy for a demagogue to come in with a platform of "who cares about policy, let's just be super-racist." [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5r4-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvaGp1dGZkMXAzcy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWt3YjRxOWVueTAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZPpBOQRlK9GJVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). GOP's phony impeachment will backfire — Trump and McCarthy will pay the price From Austin Sarat and Dennis Aftergut: The lack of any supporting evidence of "High Crimes or Misdemeanors" helps explain why McCarthy announced an "inquiry" without calling for a vote by the full House. Republicans in Biden districts don't want to be on the record supporting a fact-free impeachment. Instead, they want to keep their seats, and the people they represent know what is really going on. According to MSNBC, a poll of voters in those 18 districts found that a clear majority "said an impeachment inquiry would be "[a partisan political stunt](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5r4-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZ252MDNwaHE4ai8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWt3YjRxOWVueTBXA3NwY0IKZPpBOQRlK9GJVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo)," and the same majority "said an inquiry would be more about helping former President Donald Trump." [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5r4-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNGZia3MwNGl5eS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWt3YjRxOWVueTAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZPpBOQRlK9GJVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Keep Salon independent — [subscribe today](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5r4-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvMzFmejJ5NjF3MS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWt3YjRxOWVueTAmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZPpBOQRlK9GJVlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) and unlock more benefits! 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