In an op-ed published at the National Review this Wednesday, Jim Geraghty contends that Democrats will never be as good at beating Republicans than Republicans are at beating themselves.
Geraghty then rattled off a list of recent Republican "self owns," starting out with their killing of a bipartisan border security package, putting everything "back to square one." Also mentioned was the failed Republican effort to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The Republican effort to impeach President Joe Biden, which seems to be going nowhere, was also mentioned, as well as recent reports of the RNC's spending woes.
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"I don’t know about you, but I find all this 'winning' exhausting," Geraghty writes. "Will Rogers famously said, 'I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat.' Lately, the Republican Party is demonstrating all the organization of Bogota rush-hour traffic."
According to Geraghty, in the midst of all this, House Speaker Mike Johnson "is attempting to placate the erratic political desires" of Donald Trump "instead of living with the reality of the extremely limited consensus among the 218 other guys in his caucus."
Geraghty writes that Republicans are squandering the fact that there's a huge contingent of the county who are tired of President Joe Biden and have no faith in Kamala Harris.
"Large swaths of America’s independents are begging Republicans to give them an option beyond Donald Trump. But the GOP just won’t do it."
Read the full op-ed over at the National Review.
