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The Merger of the Tea Party and the Establishmentby Andrew Sullivan at the Dish
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/05/14/the-merger-of-tea-party-and-establishment/
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Last night, Ben Sasse handily won the Republican Senate primary in Nebraska. Molly Ball analyzes the outcome, which is being hailed as a Tea Party victory:
Sasse actually represents less the Tea Partys anti-incumbent rage than the sort of fusion candidate who can unite the party establishment and basea well-credentialed insider who can convince the right wing hes on their side. As Dave Weigel put it in Slate, Sasse is a veteran of the establishment who masterfully ingratiated himself with the conservative movement. Particularly in red states, he could represent the harmonizing future of the GOP in a post-GOP-civil-war world. Last week, Thom Tillis won the North Carolina Republican primary more by straddling the establishment and Tea Party than by taking sides; Sasse did so even more effectively.
Kilgore also reflects on last nights elections:
All in all, last night definitely represented a hiccup for the Year of the Republican Establishment narrative.
Im guessing the Powers That Be in the GOP and the mainstream media will emulate [Jennifer] Rubin by dismissing the results and focusing their attention on next weeks primaries, when the establishment is expected to do better in Idaho (Rep. Mike Simpson appears likely to hold off a right-wing challenger), Kentucky (Mitch McConnell has bludgeoned Matt Bevin into submission), and perhaps Georgia (outsider businessman David Perdue and career appropriator Rep. Jack Kingston are leading most polls and could be headed to a runoff).
At some point the pro-establishment narrative is going to have to come to grips with the fact that in almost every case the establishment champion has had to run hard right to survive, making victories when they happen mostly symbolic. But after Tuesday, just winning would be helpful.
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"The Merger of the Tea Party and the Establishment" by Andrew Sullivan at the Dish (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2014
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(295,899 posts)1. Thank you for the analysis from Sullivan, apple. Interesting that mcconnell has
beaten bevin.. according to this.
Cha
(295,899 posts)3. Toon for your thread, apple..