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Trump Just Won the GOP Civil War

This week the GOP cut its reckoning short and threw its lot in with Trump.

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Dan Pfeiffer
Jan 29, 2021
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Well, that was quick.

The Republican civil war has come to an end and Donald Trump won.

There was a very brief moment after Donald Trump dispatched a seditious horde of his supporters to storm the Capitol when it seemed like the Republican Party might walk back from the brink. The night of the insurrection, Mitch McConnell gave a speech where he urged his…

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