Some younger Republicans want their party to break out of its right-wing media cocoon - Herkimer, NY - The Telegram

Some younger Republicans want their party to break out of its right-wing media cocoon

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By Pat Cunningham

 

The fighting among Republicans after last week’s election comes as no surprise, but THIS ANGLE to the rancor is especially interesting:

A long-simmering generational battle in the conservative movement is boiling over after last week’s shellacking, with younger operatives and ideologues going public with calls that Republicans break free from a political-media cocoon that has become intellectually suffocating and self-defeating.

GOP officials have chalked up their electoral thumping to everything from the country’s changing demographics to an ill-timed hurricane and failed voter turn-out system, but a cadre of Republicans under 50 believes the party’s problem is even more fundamental.

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