Beyond what the market would bear

As the dust settles on the US political crisis, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's comment, reported by The Guardian, on what happens when ideology collides with market forces caught our eye:

'I am focusing on trying to get the Republican party to chart a better way. The way we are behaving and the path we have taken the last couple of weeks leads to a marginalised party in the eyes of the American people. A form of conservatism that is probably beyond what the market would bear.'