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After Tax Cuts, Republicans Eye Civil War

"This anxious logic — reinforced by threats of donor revolt — helped propel the Trump tax cuts through both chambers of Congress. Those cuts were historically unpopular. They made a mockery of Republican rhetoric on the deficit, regular order, and “middle-class tax relief.” But to vote down the legislation would have been to remove the last bit of glue holding congressional Republicans together.
Unfortunately for the GOP, it’s starting to look like passing the Trump tax cuts might do the very same thing. The moment Republicans fulfill their one unifying ambition, their intraparty divisions are poised to return with a vengeance — if they haven’t already".

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/after-tax-cuts-republicans-eye-civil-war.html