“For years, the far right has insisted that it and only it knows how to govern because its ideology is the only legitimate way to look at the world. The fight over funding for TSA illustrates on a micro level how lawmakers who ignore the real world to cleave to an ideology strengthen authoritarianism.”

#Politics #USPolitics #CongressionalDisfunction #RightWingIdeology #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #NoKings #FundTSA #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-27-2026

"As we’re seeing in the #US, the problem with destroying the #managerialclass is the lack of a replacement. As #Burnham understood, that class is dominant in complex modern #economies because it is impossible for the #capitalists to make anything work without a #bureaucracy below them."

https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/the-party-is-over-the-tory-slump-is-part-of-a-global-conservative-comedown

#KemiBadenoch
#rightwingpopulism
#Rightwingpolitics
#rightwingideology
#PartyPolitics
#politicalhistory
#politicalanalysis

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-nurses-union-asking-for-25-raise-in-1-year-1.7123224

More #UCP bungling. Ridiculous red tape and game playing political interference against nurses by current #Alberta government. #RightWingIdeology