Mainstream conservatives in Tennessee must recognize the threat presented by anti-GOP agitators posing as grassroots activists. They are demagogues using tactics and strategies from the Democrats’ playbook.

As a conservative Republican who has been politically active in every state in which I have lived during my adult life, I find it odd that phony anti-GOP agitators in Tennessee find a receptive audience among uninformed grassroots activists, for whom overheated hyperbole serves as a substitute for reasoned argument. The latest brouhaha involves Hughes v. Lee, a lawsuit filed in a lower-level trial court in Gibson County challenging some of Tennessee’s gun laws. Attorney General Skrmetti’s decision to appeal a poorly-reasoned decision by the three-judge panel has elicited howls of prote

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