GOP Weighs 'Fallout' from Racism, Not the Racism Itself
The Hill reports on the GOP agonizing over whether to 'condemn' racist group chats among their Young Republicans. This isn't a moral quandary for the party; it's a damage control exercise. For a party whose rhetoric, for decades, has played coy with racial resentment, this 'shock' rings hollow. Recall that 2020 saw Republican politicians like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who in 2018 called George
Soros a Nazi collaborator, celebrated not condemned, by significant party factions, demonstrating a steady normalization of extreme views. Instead of addressing the roots of white supremacist ideology budding in their youth wings, the GOP is focused on the 'optics.' One might wonder how many more 'unfortunate incidents' involving the 'very fine people' on the right it will take before The Hill, or
the GOP, admits the pattern. It's not 'fallout' they're weighing; it's whether their base will notice they're pretending to care.