This weekend a faction of the Oregon GOP tried to recall long-serving National Committeeman Solomon Yue. They narrowly failed, but the resulting kerfuffle tells us a lot about the current state of the party's political culture.
https://sethcotlar.substack.com/p/the-anti-communist-circular-firing

When the OR GOP is not fighting amongst itself, shadowboxing against imaginary Communists in their midst, they are doing everything they can to grind the process of governance in the state to a halt. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/us/oregon-legislature-republican-walkout.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

One of the most important stories of our time is that our political institutions are failing. They are not rising to meet the social, economic, and environmental challenges we face. That failure has many causes, but the radical dysfunction of the GOP has played an outsized role.

@sethcotlar

is it my imagination, or maybe 4 or 6 years ago, every liberal on social media cheered when Dems blocked legislative action by walkouts ?

yet these same walkouts by the GOP are an offense ?

OK, dems are trying to expand liberty, feed starving children, etc etc while the GOP is the opposite, but still

@failedLyndonLaRouchite Walkouts are a last ditch, suboptimal tactic regardless of who does it. The OR GOP is trying to block bills on guns and abortion that, from what I know, are fairly center-left and are in line with majority opinion in Oregon. In Texas, for example, the Dems were trying to block extreme anti-abortion laws that didn't even have majority support in that fairly conservative state.These are not equivalent.

When the most energized activists in your party are devoting a significant portion of their time and attention to the question of which people in the OR GOP are *really* doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party, you've really lost the plot.

@sethcotlar
sorry, but the last part of my post makes the point that they are not equivalent

@failedLyndonLaRouchite The ends to which the walkouts are aimed matter. But I think it also matters whether the people walking out have the support of their fellow citizens who they're supposed to represent. The OR GOP position on guns, for example, is wildly extreme and unpopular, and they will brook absolutely no compromise. Procedurally they have the right to walk out, but politically it's idiotic. But that won't stop them.

That said, it's hard to imagine what "the plot" would be that would result in the GOP winning statewide elections any time soon. And this just incentivizes folks in the party to double down on the politically self-destructive but emotionally-satisfying apocaplyptic rhetoric.

@sethcotlar the failure of Republican Party government is a intentional, not an accident. The anti-democracy donors want government run by citizens to fail. #ConservativesReallyAreThatBad #ConservativesRuinEverything

@timo21 Perhaps that's what the donors want, but it's not what most rank and file Republicans think they're doing.

@sethcotlar I don’t think winning OR, soon is part of the GOP strategy.

@voron If you look at how Republicans talk amongst themselves in the state, they are very interested in winning elections. The problem is that most of them think the way to do that is to move even further to the right...which makes sense if you spend your entire life inside a right wing media bubble.

@sethcotlar What if they are doing the bidding of Putin and the CCP?