Commentary: Kobach's winning delusion
by Matt Welch, Los Angeles Times
Aug 10, 2018
3 minutes
If you want to know where a political party is heading, look at what's buoying the candidates who take on incumbents during primary season.
The long-shot victory of millennial heartthrob Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over 15-year Capitol Hill veteran Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), for example, reveals a party barreling toward its democratic socialism moment. So what can we say about the temporally powerful yet electorally fragile GOP?
Its dystopian obsession with illegal immigration remains even more important, in some cases, than
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