"But the Paying Audience Loves the Show and That's All That Matters"

"The current GOP is less interested in the messy business of governing than it is in performative indignation and the memes that play well in social media and on cable television. Memes, it shouldn't need to be said, are not ideas and don't require a consistent set of principles. The result is a kind of free-floating nihilism, as the GOP chases narratives that stir outrage, generate clicks, shake loose grassroots contributions, and play well on Newsmax and Fox."

At Politico, Charles Sykes shows how "Republicans' attacks on Big Business are as fake as their phony working-class act."

But Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, interviewed by Zack Stanton, contends that "[w]hat the GOP cares about and what major businesses care about are, increasingly incompatible."