Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’

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Republicans baffled by Katie Britt’s State of the Union response: ‘One of our biggest disasters’
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I’m somewhat suspicious that there are huge swaths of the Republican Party that simply refuse to talk to each other or coordinate in any official capacity. Like, some of them are coordinating with the old guard, some are coordinating with Trump directly, some are coordinating with the national GOP, and some are just doing what they think Trump would want them to do.

All that said, it’s deeply disconcerting to see that their ramshackle organization still has a shitload of momentum simply due to the fact they’ve kinda converted into a cult.

Not to invoke Godwin's Law, but decentralization like this worked GREAT for the Nazis before they took power. It's real terror-cell tactics - if one of them gets busted saying or doing something that's totally fucking whack, the national GOP can just say "well we weren't coordinating their messages, those words and actions don't represent us, etc etc".

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