Does the GOP want to be normal or crazy?
Zachary Faria
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Responding to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) said America is no longer divided between the Right and the Left, but that “the choice is between normal or crazy.”
She’s correct. Now, it’s up to Republicans to choose which one they want to be.
Voters were torn between deciding which party was the crazy one during the 2022 midterm elections. While they gave Republicans control of the House of Representatives, they did so by a far narrower margin than was expected. In high-profile Senate races, voters backed the Democrats, including the incoherent Pennsylvanian who hasn’t recovered from a stroke.
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Republicans blew the races for governor in Arizona and Pennsylvania by nominating election deniers, blew Senate races in Pennsylvania and Georgia by nominating unpopular celebrities, and blew a Senate race in Arizona by nominating an unpopular noncelebrity. The GOP was rejected in Senate races in Nevada and New Hampshire, governor’s races in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Kansas, and even rejected in a House seat that a generic Republican should have won by 11 percentage points.
The “crazy” caucus hasn’t gone away in the meantime, either. Kari Lake, who claims to be the true governor of Arizona despite losing, has continued pushing conspiracy theories and ridiculous lawsuits and is considering a Senate run. Former President Donald Trump has decided to accuse one of his top (potential) GOP opponents of being a sexual predator, based on attacks from far-Left figures. Trump continues to post conspiracy theories about his own 2020 loss and constantly attacks Republicans whom he hired and employed for years.
A number of the less-serious members of the GOP have already endorsed Trump and his antics for 2024. It is difficult to out-crazy the current Democratic Party, but Trump managed to do it in 2020, and his acolytes did the same in 2022. If the choice for voters in 2024 is between “normal and crazy,” what do we think voters will label a GOP led by the guy who won’t shut up about how 2020 was stolen from him by voting machines that targeted only him and no other Republicans?
Republicans should make 2024 a choice between normal and crazy. There is plenty of crazy about the party that thinks gender-confused children should be mutilated. And yet, if GOP primary voters choose to continue to nominate losers such as Trump and Lake, the party will continue to forfeit any claim to being “normal,” as well as the chances of winning important, competitive elections.
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