At the national level, the Republican Party has been trying as hard as it can over the last six months to toe the line between showing its fealty to former President Donald Trump and not directly endorsing his lies about the 2020 election. This dance has led GOP leaders to twist themselves into increasingly incoherent knots to avoid alienating their voting base.
But the problem is much, much worse at the state level. In effect, it s not just one party of Trump we re going to have to deal with it s 51 of them. I don t see any easy fix for this not when you consider the type of people who tend to dominate state politics and how little leverage anyone has over them.