In Jane Coaston’s The Argument podcast over at the New York Times, Democrats have been debating the future of their party and Republicans — and former Republicans — have been debating the future of the GOP.
National Review’s Rich Lowry and the Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes had a discussion that was, for me at least, considerably more interesting than the Democratic debate, in which Lanae Erickson of Third Way made the case for politics-as-engineering while Steve Phillips of Democracy in Color made the case that everybody who disagrees with him politically is a racist. That the Republican intramural brawl is more interesting is maybe to be expected, since there is just a lot of new and horrible stuff going on in the Republican Party. Nobody slows down to look at a train that didn’t go careering off the tracks.
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