Nancy Pelosi Wants a ‘Strong Republican Party.’ Really, She Does. There’s Just One Catch.

Robert Spencer : Well, no doubt Pelosi longs for the days when Nelson Rockefeller, John Anderson, and George H. W. Bush gave us a Republican party that was essentially the same as the Democrat party, and that group is still very much with us, as Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and Lisa Murkowski remind us at every opportunity.

But they are not the vanguard of the party and may not even be a majority and are unpopular with the party base, and Pelosi finds that … deplorable. She has made this clear before. PJM’s Chris Queen noted that in remarks at the Cambridge Union in the UK in September 2021, “Pelosi spoke to the audience as though she were addressing the GOP directly, telling them that the Republicans have done ‘wonderful things for the country’ in the past. But she chastised the party for allowing a ‘cult’ to ‘hijack’ its agenda.” The “cult” is, of course, apparently the followers of Donald Trump.

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