As I’ve taken great pains to point out over the years, the GOP is badly divided on most of the important issues of the day. In addition, many of its more prominent members are far more interested in becoming social media celebrities than in moving legislation. For those reasons, it is often said that the GOP has few, if any, ideas about policy.
While that observation is true, it is slightly misleading; while the Republicans don’t have much in the way of actual ideas, they do have prejudices and lowest common denominators that unite them against the left. I will be identifying and analyzing these in a series of posts over the next week.