Jeff Greenfield has covered U.S. politics for most of his long life. He has an article at Politico I believe COTTonLINE readers will want to see. A caveat - he isn't fond of Donald Trump.
Greenfield argues, persuasively I believe, that the supposed "civil war" within the GOP which the New York Times, Washington Post, etc. have been touting is baloney, basically wishful thinking. He writes the Republican Party is almost entirely unified behind Trump.
The exception is a small, noisy handful of Washington old-timers, who mostly date back to the Reagan and Bush eras. The legacy media seeks them out to air their grievances, but it is clear they are preaching to the Democrat choir. Rank and file Republicans do not find them persuasive.
What we’re seeing isn’t a civil war. It’s a purge, and there’s every reason to believe it will work.
The small, noisy handful is the target of said purge, people like Cheney, Flake, and Romney. Greenfield concludes:
This is Trump’s Republican Party, and it’s perfectly united in that conviction. To pretend otherwise—and to pretend that there’s an argument about what it stands for, or some kind of damaging fracture still ahead—is an act of delusion.
Analysis: True.
