Good Thursday evening. This is Daniel Allott with The Hill's Top Opinions.
"The Republican Party is in complete chaos," writes political strategist Shermichael Singleton, and the ongoing battle to choose a Speaker for the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is just the most recent evidence.
Under the influence of MAGA, "The Republican Party has become a nationalist-populist party that has fallen short in elections and has failed to pass any major legislation based on its new principles, which remain incoherent and illusive."
Singleton concedes that the MAGA movement "led millions of disaffected voters to join in the political process — but it also has crippled the GOP internally."
And now MAGA Republicans are demanding all sorts of absurd concessions from GOP leadership to garner their support for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to be the next House Speaker.
The underlying problem, says Singleton, is that the MAGA movement "has turned the GOP into one big grievance party with no real solutions to Americans' problems."
Once the Speaker battle is resolved, the party must wrestle with some defining questions if it hopes to move forward and lead, writes Singleton, including: "What does a modern GOP look like in a changing, diverse America?"
"This moment is make-or-break for the GOP, and what the party does will determine where it goes in the future and whom it represents."
Read Singleton's op-ed here.
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