OPINION:
The Republican Party has its RINOs (Republicans in name only) who can make party consensus hard to reach. The Democrats have a comparable problem.
By trashing one of their own — an heir to the party’s royal family, no less — during a recent House hearing, the Democratic attack dogs highlighted their dilemma (“Democrats try to halt RFK Jr. testimony before House panel,” web, July 20).
What they fear is more than just one party icon. There’s also a squad of old-school Democrats — such as legal scholars Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley, Sen. Joe Manchin and others — talking back with vigor, along with defectors such as Tulsi Gabbard, who departed the party altogether.
Unlike the GOP’s RINOs, generic retrograde insubordinate Democrats strike fear in their leaders’ hearts. Rightly so, too, because these GRIDs could overthrow them one day, resume control and make their party great again.
JOHN S. MASON JR.
Irvington, Virginia
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