The G.O.P.’s Ties to Extremism Go Beyond the Confederate Flag

If Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and the other serious contenders for the Republican nomination haven’t yet contacted Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina, to thank her for what she did on Monday, it’s time for them to get on the horn. In calling for the Confederate flag to be taken down from the state capitol in Columbia, Haley didn’t just do the right thing by the victims of last week’s mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston; she also helped to lance a boil that was threatening to infect her party.

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