Opinion: Extremists have their fingerprints all over the GOP
It was quite a week for the Republican Party. If anyone was still holding out hope that the GOP would shift away from its Trumpian pull, the last few days should serve as a powerful wake-up call.
During the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, a number of conservative Republican senators who appear to have an eye on 2024 raised the specter of conspiracy theories in an attempt to sidetrack a well-qualified and highly respected nominee.
Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, for example, went after Jackson by trying to paint a misleading picture that she had been particularly lenient toward sex offenders.
While the "soft on crime" line of attack might seem like a predictable extension of a decades-long Republican "law and order" strategy, commentators have pointed out that the senators may have been trying to appeal to those who follow QAnon and believe the conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump is locked in a battle against a group of elites who run a child sex ring.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-extremists-have-their-fingerprints-all-over-the-gop/ar-AAVv09H
Wrong. Donald Trump is one of the elites running the child sex ring.
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