Under the direction of far-right Kelli Ward, the Arizona GOP has passed resolutions censuring three Arizona Republicans — Gov. Doug Ducey, Cindy McCain and former Sen. Jeff Flake — for failing to live up their Trumpian standards. And the Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board slammed the resolution in a blistering editorialpublished over the weekend.
As the WSJ’s editorial board sees it, this type of purity test can only marginalize the Republican Party in the months ahead.
“The resolutions have little practical effect,” the editorial board explains, “but they symbolize the party divisions that could doom the GOP to minority status nationwide for years. Ms. Ward, who has run twice for Senate and lost, was endorsed for party chair this past week by Donald Trump. Mr. Trump, now decamped to Mar-a-Lago, is contemplating revenge against everyone in the GOP he blames for his defeat.” Continue reading.