What We’ve Learned From Rep. Mike Hope
This piece co-authored by Michelle McIntyre and R. Clayton Strang and cross-posted at Red State
The 80/20 argument often comes up whenever conservative activists have any criticism whatsoever towards a Republican candidate or elected Republican official. It’s a pragmatist argument: “My 80 percent friend is not my 20 percent enemy” or “I’d much rather lobby a Republican who agrees with me on 80 percent of the issues than try and lobby a Democrat who agrees with me on nothing.”
Perhaps there is some truth to the pragmatist argument, but just how is it that activists should go about lobbying their Republican elected officials when they go astray from not only the party platform but the state and U.S. Constitutions?



























