How Do Republicans Get Away With It?

Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste” sheds light on the GOP’s head-spinning double standards

A telling look at the Republican coalition. Mike Pence and congressional Republicans, shortly after the 2016 election. Photo credit: Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers on Twitter (via Business Insider)

How do they get away with it?

We asked that question in 2016 when Republicans took the unprecedented step of refusing to consider President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, and chose instead to leave a vacant seat on the nation’s…