ADThe failures of the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis can be traced directly to some of the toxic fantasies now dear to the Republican Party. Long before Trump, the Republican Party adopted as a key article of faith that more government was bad. ADThe Republican Party has gone from admiring William F. Buckley Jr., an Ivy League intellectual, to viewing higher education as a left-wing conspiracy to indoctrinate the young. Over the past few years, when ramming through conservative judges, Republicans have crowed, “Elections have consequences.” That’s true. Those of us in the Republican Party built this moment.

Source: Washington Post March 18, 2020 12:04 UTC