How Republicans Speak to Each Other

This leaked secret audio recording of the Tennessee Republican caucus furiously infighting over the aftermath of evicting the two Black legislators is really revealing. Even outside of a caucus already reeling from infighting now having to deal with someone leaking the whole thing to the media. But the bigger point is that these people aren’t lying to the public when they put out their propaganda that they think Democrats are Satan incarnate and that their extremism is a holy war for the nation, They really genuinely believe it and they say it to each other all the time. I think we all kinda wish the Republican Party was the wink, wink really not that right-wing in the leadership that maybe they could once have been portrayed as. That’s really not true anymore. They are all true believers. Maybe that’s true inside the Murdoch household or at the Aspen Institute and maybe it’s not, but sure as hell is true in the state legislatures.