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OPINION: For Evidence that GOP 'angertainment' isn't working take a look at Colorado

Writer: Restore the Balance
Restore the Balance
Nov 25, 2022
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November 25, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/25/boebert-colorado-republicans-limits-of-outrage-politics/


The razor-thin near-rejection of Boebert — from a district that Donald Trump won by eight percentage points in 2020, covering much of the western half of the state — demonstrates that Trump-esque style of turning the performative outrage up to 11 hit a hard ceiling among the electorate, repelling not just Democrats and independents but apparently a thin but decisive slice of Republicans.

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