This weekend’s Iran strike by President Trump has exposed divisions within the GOP—which makes sense, considering Trump billed himself as the one Republican who would keep the US out of wars in the Middle East. But despite intraparty divides in Washington and Madison, there remains zero effort at bipartisanship when it comes to how Congress and the Legislature deal with Democrats on issues like taxes, education, healthcare, and more. We’ll talk to state Rep. Francesca Hong about the ways her far-right colleagues are behaving as if they’d already accomplished their goal of one-party rule.

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