How Kevin McCarthy Promotes the Myth of Meritocracy
Dog whistles are for rent-seekers, too.
5 min readApr 18, 2021
Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) managed to get a headline on Politico the other day. He was speaking up about American values in response to the MAGA caucus in Congress. The headline? McCarthy responds to MAGA caucus: GOP isn’t party of ‘nativist dog whistles’. The quote that caught my eye?