gop
"More precisely, the GOP is actually most like the central character who owns the motel: Norman Bates and his alter ego, “Mother,†a.k.a. Norma. Norman appears to be a polite, sincere young man, if strongly dominated by Mother. But so what if he's idiosyncratic, even eccentric, with a mother fixation? As a private individual, he has the right to be odd."
"Higgins contends that the establishment GOP, which worked this year to stamp out some of the more vocally extreme candidates in its ranks this year, is like Tolkein's Gollum, so captivated by a shiny object that it ends up destroying itself and those it loves"
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