When Too Much Is Never Enough 0
Harold Meyerson comments on the Republican Party’s intransigence and sees an unlikely parallel with another movement for which ideology trumped reality.
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When zeal runs amok, the sense of proportion suffers. Today’s Republicans remind me of some leaders of the American Communist Party whom I got to know decades ago, after they’d left the fold. “We believed in the party line, in its infallibility, so completely,” one ex-commie told me, “that we’d forget the larger strategy for the momentary tactic.” So it was with Communists of yore; so it is with Republicans today.
