The Far Right Has Taken Over the Arizona Republican Party

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The far right has taken over the Arizona Republican Party, says CNN's Ana Navarrette. The state party is pushing out people who have been bulwarks of the Arizona GOP and catering entirely to the far right, she adds. And how do you see this playing out when it comes to the midterms? "We are going to finish the wall,"Navarrette writes.

In kicking off the midterms, Joe Biden talked about American democracy as a shared value, enshrined in the country’s founding — a value that both Democrats and Republicans should join together in defending. But there is another possible view of this moment. One that is shared by two very different groups: the voters who propelled Biden to the presidency … and the conservative activists who are rejecting democracy altogether.

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