WASHINGTON — Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley was booted from his perch on the powerful Armed Services Committee last month as retribution for delaying the confirmation of numerous Defense Department
Let s Have a Bourbon Party | Opinion Ilya Shapiro
, Director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute On 2/16/21 at 7:30 AM EST
Two weeks ago, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) tweeted, The Republican Party is no longer the wine and cheese party. It s the beer and blue jeans party. That echoed Sen. Josh Hawley s (R-MO) election night tweet that Republicans are a working-class party now.
Such a re-conceiving of the Party of Lincoln is a big mistake, and not in terms of policy or even ideology. Setting aside the category error of equating cheese with jeans, there are two serious problems with Jordan s framing.