So asks my friend Daniel McCarthy in a sharp column in The Spectator, noting how Republicans seem to be walking away from the very things that are popular with their voters, such as the SAVE Act and tough immigration enforcement:
The unwillingness of so many elected Republicans to stand with their own voters’ priorities has already had electoral consequences this year. A majority of voters in Texas’s Republican primaries last month opted not to cast their ballots for Cornyn, though he received a plurality of votes in his contest. He faces defeat at the hands of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the May 26 primary runoff, unless, perhaps, President Trump intervenes to endorse Cornyn. Texas Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw, meanwhile, lost his primary outright.
Republican voters are not happy with Republican officials, and that displeasure will be felt in November as much as it’s already being felt in the primaries. The only voters who still have any desire to support the GOP will stay home if Republican officeholders keep sounding like watered-down Democrats.
Same as it ever was.