Filibuster Cartoons
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The race to become the next Republican presidential nominee is fast descending into a swaggering machismo-fest in which each man tries to out-conservative the other.
Granted, that usually happens in GOP primaries, but the context is particularly odd this year, considering that the leading candidates are by and large generally moderate individuals. In another era the candidates might even be tempted to play up their moderation, and history of pragmatism as admirable, electable qualities. But today conservatives seem to value dogmatic orthodoxy above boldness or intellectualism, so we get a bunch of men who have to pretend to be a bunch of things they are not, in order to take control of a party whose base they secretly can’t stand.
