GOP insurgency plans for a civil war in next years midterm elections

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GOP insurgency plans for a civil war in next year’s midterm elections

Populist rage simmers among the conservative base as President Trump struggles to enact his priorities. Stoked by former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon and his incendiary media platform, Breitbart News, a new wave of anti-establishment activists and contenders is emerging to plot a political insurrection that is with Donald Trump in spirit but entirely out of his — or anyone’s — control.

By Robert Costa




With or without Trump, GOP insurgency plans for a civil war in 2018 midterms
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The one big problem the GOP can't shake



Republicans are facing a growing unity problem that's impeding their policy goals, even though they're in the majority. (Video: Jenny Starrs/Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post)



By Robert Costa September 30 at 6:00 AM

The next Republican revolution began last week on a bright blue bus parked at a nighttime rally in Montgomery, Ala., days before a firebrand GOP candidate won the state’s Senate primary.

But unlike previous Republican revolutionaries, the hard-line figures who stepped out to cheers did not want to yank the party to the right on age-old issues such as taxes or spending. They wanted to gut it and leave its establishment smashed.

Fury infused these insurgents’ raw remarks as did a common theme: The Republican Party has failed its voters, and a national cleansing was needed in the coming year, regardless of whether President Trump was on board.

Longtime Republicans see a charged civil war on the horizon.

“There is an emotional component,” former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R) said of the frustrations of Trump’s core backers, who have grown increasingly vocal. “They want someone to kick over the table. And my advice to every Republican is: You better have an edge, or you become the problem.”
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Controversial conservative and former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore won the Republican primary for the state's Senate seat on Sept. 26, setting up a crisis within the GOP. Here's a look at three problems his win poses for the D.C. establishment. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)

That populist rage in the base as Trump struggles to enact his priorities — which lifted former judge Roy Moore to victory on Tuesday against Trump’s ally, Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) — now threatens to upend GOP incumbents in 2018 as the latest incarnation of Republican grievance takes hold.......................................