House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi repeated that mantra Sunday on Meet the Press. Immigration reform, the California Democrat said, is “certainly right for the Republicans if they ever want to win a presidential race.” There’s a problem with the conventional wisdom. It assumes all Republicans share the same assumptions and want the same outcomes. It also assumes that House Republican members are identical with “the Republican Party,” that there is one Republican Party rather than a national Republican Party and a series of locally based parties reflecting local, not national, interests. The national Republican Party looks at the results of the 2012 election and logically concludes that the...
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