The Republican anti-tax coalition is beginning to disintegrate | David Sirota, Arjun Singh, Ariella Markowitz and Natalie Bettendorf

For half a century, the GOP has embraced tax cuts for the rich. But as Americans turn against the idea, the party is divided

I am a gay woman who is moderately pro-choice - I know that there are some people in this room who don't believe that my marriage should have been legal," the rightwing impresario Bari Weiss told a Federalist Society gathering in 2023. And that's OK. Because we're all Americans who want lower taxes."

The assembled conservatives guffawed at hearing the quiet part out loud: in this case, the admission that tax cuts for the rich have been the glue holding the US conservative movement together.