Just head out to Iowa, where GOP candidates this past weekend were donning leather for Joni Ernst’s Roast and Ride.

The 2024 Republican primary, however, is Trumpism run amok, with Donald Trump leading a pack of less charismatic mini-mes and little sign that the normal (a.k.a. But the vote signaled that a majority of Republicans could embrace bipartisan governing, or at least some version of what that looks like in 2023. Clearly, the burn it all down wing isn’t going away, with Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, and Ken Buck among the 71 Republicans who voted “no.” And it’s not like all members of the “yes” group, which includes Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene, are suddenly sane. And yet, even in a party consumed for years by Trumpism, 149 Republicans voted last week with 165 Democrats to raise the debt ceiling and spare the American economy an unprecedented meltdown. Trumpism is about destruction, about burning it all down, about a kind of partisanship in which Republicans are unwilling or unable to make any kind of bipartisan compromise.

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