Washington Post: “In a revealing moment at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida – a Republican who is a leading inheritor of the mantle of Trumpism – unintentionally displayed one of that inchoate ideology’s most serious weaknesses. ‘We can sit around and have academic debates about conservative policy,’ DeSantis said. ‘But the question is, when the klieg lights get hot, when the left comes after you: Will you stay strong, or will you fold?’ This suggestion – that feverish anti-leftist delirium is becoming the central organizing principle for much of the GOP as it remains captive to former president Donald Trump – provides Democrats with a big opening. The coming debate over a major infrastructure package will show how. If President Biden and the Democratic Congress can pass such a package, it could deal a big blow to Trumpism, aided by its continuing descent into hallucinatory anti-leftism.”
“The Times reports that some Dems are already thinking about how to move a far-reaching infrastructure repair agenda, if they can get the economic relief bill through the Senate and into law. This coming debate may be uniquely positioned to expose Trumpism’s bankruptcy as it sinks into QAnon-ification, cultishness, and mythologizing about the Lost Cause of the stolen election.”