Steve Schmidt

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Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

purity tests lead to purges. See @Liz_Cheney case study. This party is of a particular type. It is the vessel of an authoritarian movement that seeks to come to power via an elections process. It is a fusion party that combines vestigial Republicans with a charismatic leader 9) — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 9, 2021

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Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES

The GOP is shrinking. It is getting smaller. It is important to understand basic political physics in order to understand the result of the “shrinkage” ht @IJasonAlexander. When political parties shrink they become more extreme. Extreme movements impose purity tests and those 8) — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 9, 2021

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that has built a cult of personality around previously fringe groups. In this case we are talking about Proud Boys, white supremacists and other societal cancers. Within this fusion party the chief virtues are willful blindness and delusion among the vestigial republicans about — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 9, 2021