Glenn Youngkin is no temperate business Republican but rather a culture warrior who toys with extremism. onesarahjones writes
Youngkin’s dance impressed voters and obscured his true nature. He has more in common with Kari Lake — and with Trump — than he wanted the Virginia electorate to know. Such similarities apply to his social conservatism as well as his early support for the GOP’s election conspiracies. Yet in retrospect, his business interests may have been his first and clearest link with the unpopular former president.
The business Republican as a radical-in-waiting long predates Trump. The story of the Republican Party is frequently one about an alliance between business and socially extremist interests. Before there were MAGA Republicans, there were tea-party Republicans. Before the tea party, there was the Christian right and the John Birch Society and the. There was Pat Buchanan, and Barry Goldwater, even the esteemed Ronald Reagan.
Even if Youngkin was a true moderate, his coalition would inevitably pull him to the right. History tells us that in the U.S. at least, an alliance of “respectable” and extremist interests becomes uneven as the latter absorbs the former. What right-wing radicals can lack in public support they make up for with aggression and money: The combination maps out an alternative path to power.
Youngkin reportedly wants to run for president, and if he does, it is likely that his far-right sympathies will become ever more apparent. Moderation offers no path to victory in today’s GOP. Its decades-longDaily news about the politics, business, and technology shaping our world.
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