The Republican Party should be a big tent, but that big tent shouldn’t include Democrats or Democrat collaborators. Members of our party, from weakness, malice, or delusions of moral superiority, have been betraying us left and right lately, with political mediocrities empowered by the fact that the margins are so close and the issues are so important that even the most ridiculous of these alleged Republicans can seize a moment of outsized power simply by sucking up to the regime media. Much of the focus lately has been on marginal twerps who aren’t even Republicans – that malignant rodent Nick Fuentes makes no bones about hating the GOP, as does the unstable and malicious Candace Owens. They deserve our contempt, but it’s not like they have an (R) after their names. It’s the ones who do who are the real threat. Fortunately, we have leverage over them, and we need to use it ruthlessly to restore the discipline the GOP needs to beat the existential threat that is the left.

Kurt Schlichter, Townhall