The wide range of ideological support was not enough to save Mr. McCarthy, whose fall instead becomes part of the story of our political transformation as a country.
In the not-too-distant past, political parties contained a wide range of ideologies united by a party machine, which kept them together despite regional interests and wildly different priorities.
Now the big sort is ending — but there is no replacement for the party machinery to maintain coherence.
This is far more true of the right than the left, but it’s happening on both sides.
Fund-raising operations gave party establishments some power, but they no longer had the ability to dictate outcomes automatically.
Persons:
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Organizations:
California Legislature
Locations:
California, South Carolina