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The GOP is Still Chained to the Base

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Everyone thinks the GOP’s plan to shut down the government is insane—especially the American public. So why are they doing it? Jamelle Bouie on why the party still fears its die-hards above all.

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Almost everyone agrees that the Republican Party’s debt-ceiling brinksmanship is dangerous to the economy. That includes economists, who agree that it could derail the recovery and plunge the country into a second recession; former

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