Are the Last Rational Republicans in Denial?
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I wonder if the remaining sensible Republicans have accepted the irretrievable loss of the GOP they once knew.
But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
Harsher Truths
In 1991, the last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was briefly deposed in a coup by hard-line members of the Soviet Communist Party. Gorbachev, upon his return to Moscow, tried to differentiate between the plotters and the Party itself. One of his closest that this effort was pointless, akin to “serving tea to a corpse.”
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