The Big Lie: Local News Should Have Georgia on Its Mind

With due respect to the late Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, who coined the phrase "all politics is local," it's time to add a qualifier: "except when it's not." The case in point: the national implications of the Georgia Republican Party's spiral into the fantasyland of wacky election conspiracies, ritual incantations of Donald Trump's lies, and loving support for lunatic congressmen. Whatever their down-home psychoses, however, Georgia's Republicans aren't the only GOPers who are racing to reconstitute their party as QAnon Lite.