{"id":527056,"date":"2022-12-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-memo-new-controversies-deepen-gops-extremist-problem\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T11:00:00","slug":"the-memo-new-controversies-deepen-gops-extremist-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-memo-new-controversies-deepen-gops-extremist-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Memo: New controversies deepen GOP\u2019s \u2018extremist\u2019 problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e6f0fb424a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e6f0fb424a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-memo-new-controversies-deepen-gops-extremist-problem\/#The_Memo_New_controversies_deepen_GOPs_%E2%80%98extremist_problem\" >The Memo: New controversies deepen GOP\u2019s \u2018extremist\u2019 problem<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Memo_New_controversies_deepen_GOPs_%E2%80%98extremist_problem\"><\/span>The Memo: New controversies deepen GOP\u2019s \u2018extremist\u2019 problem<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>The GOP has an image problem \u2014 and it\u2019s not getting better.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans suffered a dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointing midterm election in part because moderate voters saw the party as too extreme.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>A string of new controversies isn\u2019t doing anything to soften those edges.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told a gala in New York that the Jan. 6 insurrection would have been more successful had she and former Trump strategist Stephen Bannon organized it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Expanding on her point, the Georgia congresswoman said that such an attempt \u201cwould\u2019ve been armed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"sailthru_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-widget sailthru-signup-display-area sailthru-signup-hill-position-main\">\n        <span class=\"sailthru-signup-widget-close\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\">Close<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sailthru_form\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-success-message\" hidden=\"hidden\">\n<p class=\"thanks\">Thank you for signing up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"watch\">Subscribe to more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>letters here<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru-subscribe-grid-display\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-message-wrapper\">\n<p>                            <span>The latest in politics and policy.<br \/>\nDirect to your inbox.<br \/>\nSign up for the Morning Report newsletter<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She later claimed she was being sarcastic.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the former president himself said on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> that he favored the \u201ctermination\u201d of the Constitution \u2014 and appeared to suggest he could somehow be reinstated as president.<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre claim came at a time when Republicans were still being buffeted by outrage over former President Trump having dinner at Mar-a-Lago with two noted antisemites: Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and Nick Fuentes.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"5409\" height=\"3606\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AP20190679798657.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3774681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AP20190679798657.jpg 5409w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AP20190679798657.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AP20190679798657.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AP20190679798657.jpg?resize=1080,720 1080w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AP20190679798657.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AP20190679798657.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AP20190679798657.jpg?resize=645,430 645w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AP20190679798657.jpg?resize=50,33 50w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/AP20190679798657.jpg?resize=876,584 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 899px) 100vw, 876px\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">FILE \u2013 President Donald Trump, left, meets with rapper Kanye West, seated second from right, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci, File)<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Monday, website Talking Points Memo published texts that were apparently sent to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the waning days of Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Those messages included one from Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), sent three days prior to President Biden\u2019s inauguration, in which the congressman urged Meadows to encourage Trump to impose martial law \u2014 something that he considered \u201cour last hope\u201d in \u201csaving our Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Put it all together, and it\u2019s a lot of new fuel for the fire that burnt the GOP in the midterms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In those elections, according to a voter analysis commissioned by The Associated Press and Fox News, 44 percent of voters called \u201cthe future of democracy in this country\u201d the single most important factor for them. Among that group, Democrats had a 20-point advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The furors sparked by Trump and his fiercest advocates, such as Greene, have those who favor a more moderate course for the GOP shaking their heads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThese kinds of irresponsible statements alienate millions of voters, especially independents and swing voters who decide national elections,\u201d one such Republican strategist, Brendan Steinhauser, told this column.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are signs that the voices of the old GOP establishment are reasserting themselves to try to quell the new storms.<\/p>\n<p>Several leading Senate Republicans distanced themselves from Trump\u2019s early December Truth Social post in which he argued for the \u201ctermination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1400\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)\" class=\"wp-image-3764047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?resize=1280,720 1280w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?resize=645,363 645w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?resize=256,144 256w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?resize=512,288 512w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?resize=876,492 876w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?resize=960,540 960w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mcconnellmitch_120622gn3_w.jpg?resize=50,28 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 899px) 100vw, 876px\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) addresses reporters after the weekly policy luncheon.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) noted dryly at his weekly press conference that someone who makes such an argument \u201cseems to me would have a very hard time being sworn in as the president of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) were among the other senior GOP senators who expressed their displeasure with Trump\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Trump\u2019s MAGA movement and GOP senators are at a high pitch after the midterms anyways, given that Republicans remain confined to the Senate minority because Trump-backed nominees lost winnable races in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The dynamics between party leadership and the most hard-line GOP members are even more complicated in the House, where Republicans will have 222 seats \u2014 a thin majority, and much fewer than they hoped for \u2014 in the new session.<\/p>\n<p>There, current Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has to keep support from the whole party \u2014 including the hard-liners \u2014 if he is to be elected Speaker in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1400\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)\" class=\"wp-image-3763126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?resize=1280,720 1280w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?resize=645,363 645w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?resize=256,144 256w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?resize=512,288 512w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?resize=876,492 876w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?resize=960,540 960w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_111522gn10_w.jpg?resize=50,28 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 899px) 100vw, 876px\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) addresses reporters following the House Republican leadership election for the 118th session of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of the most Trumpian members of the conference, including Norman, have said they will not vote for McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) is challenging McCarthy, and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has been adamant he will not vote for the Californian. Reps. Bob Good (R-Va.) and Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) are also in the anti-McCarthy camp.<\/p>\n<p>Greene, to the surprise of some of her most vehement supporters, has backed McCarthy for Speaker, and he has pledged to give her back the committee assignments that were s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped from her in early 2021 amid controversy over past comments, including apparent endorsements of violence.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Those maneuvers are, in turn, giving Democrats plenty of material to assert that the GOP is in the hands of extremists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve known for a long time that Marjorie Taylor Greene is the real power behind the new majority,\u201d Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) told The Hill earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said that McCarthy and his colleagues \u201cneed to decide which side of the insurrection they\u2019re on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democratic strategist Tad Devine told this column that Republicans \u201care shooting themselves in the foot constantly\u201d and \u201cblew it\u201d in the midterm elections, even while enjoying favorable political conditions.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe Republicans are a political party who are only interested in their base voters and not interested in the much larger segment of voters who tend to decide <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> elections,\u201d Devine added.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, of course, have a partisan interest in making those arguments. And Republicans who back Trump and his right-wing populism insist their approach is boosting working-class support across racial lines, reshaping American politics to the party\u2019s advantage.<\/p>\n<p>But other Republicans, like Steinhauser, take a very different, dimmer view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen political figures talk about \u2018terminating\u2019 the Constitution or imposing martial law to keep their favorite politician in power, the American voter rightly objects to such rhetoric,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, some in the GOP are determined to say outrageous and frightening things that they believe have wide appeal. But they do not, and responsible leaders on the right need to speak out against such rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage. Mychael Schnell contributed reporting.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Republicans suffered a disappointing midterm election in part because moderate voters saw the party as too extreme. A string of new controversies isn\u2019t doing anything to soften those edges. On Saturday, Rep. 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