The GOP Is Mired in Conspiraciesand It's About to Get Worse

Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 6:20 a.m.

Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Thursday that the impeachment inquiry had \u201cpoisoned the minds of fanatics,\u201d and he was absolutely right\u2014but not quite in the way that he meant. His comments, aimed at Democrats, instead came across in the hearing as projection, a sad summation of the intellectual rot that has spread through his own party during the Trump age.