Bloodstar

Via Ambinder:

According to the Tennessee Republican Party, the Speaker of the state house, a Republican named Kent Williams, is a heretic and no longer deserves to be affiliated with party of Lincoln. The party’s executive committee affirmed the political disbarment, throwing Tennessee politics out of equilibrium.

Republicans won a bare majority in the House; Williams had won the Speaker’s job by negotiating with Democrats; he promised to be inclusive and says that the Republican Party will die out if it does not open the tent. Establishment Republicans in Tennessee were furious. They had one electoral goal — to win a majority — and Williams, by compromising with the hated opposition, by promising to legislate and govern, rather than to precipitate Republican hegemony, became an immediate outcast.

So, The Republicans are free to do whatever they want, though they’re really on a roll with the desire to reduce the party to a purified rump that won’t have a majority higher than dog catcher in a few years

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