George Will warns ‘grotesque’ is becoming normal for GOP

Source: The Hill | August 5, 2017 | John Bowden

Conservative columnist George Will warned Friday that “grotesque” is becoming the new normal for the Republican Party.

In a column for The Washington Post, Will rips advertisements on behalf of Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) that attack Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), who is also seeking the Alabama Senate seat.

Strange was appointed in February to serve the remainder of former Sen. Jeff Sessions’ (R) term after Sessions was named President Trump’s attorney general. The ads attacking Brooks were financed by a political action committee (PAC) aligned with Senate GOP leadership.

In advertisements, the PAC has attacked Brooks for comments he made while serving as chairman for Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) presidential campaign in the state, such as his statements criticizing Trump’s “serial adultery.”

Another ad, according to Will, “suggest that Brooks supports the Islamic State,” as it criticizes Brooks’ stance against military intervention in Libya and Syria and his “support for Congress replacing the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force with an updated one.”

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Senate GOP leaders like Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are “shredding the remnants of its dignity” by financing such ads, Will argued.

“Is this Northern Gothic?” Will asked. “No, it is Republican Gothic, the grotesque becoming normal in a national party whose dishonest and, one hopes, futile assault on Brooks is shredding the remnants of its dignity.”

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