It seems more and more clear that the Republican extremists in control of the House don't want to prevent default on the debt they helped to create.
They WANT a default. They want the economy to crash, and then take total control of Washington (and beyond) next year.
They need help from Big Journalism to do this. And they're getting it, as the political press treats this extortion/sabotage as just another horse race story with two roughly equivalent sides.
@dangillmor There was another stunning example of both-sidesing from the NYT in their newsletter, which I wrote about yesterday. The topic there was the Supreme Court.
The NYT's newsletter today is insane. "Democrats are denouncing the court in ways that would have been shocking not so long ago." The real problem with the Supreme Court, you see, is not that it's corrupt or has been packed with MAGA justices who have no respect for precedent, but that liberals criticize those things. The NYT is claiming that liberals are being too harsh, not squaring that with the fact that 75% of Americans no longer trust the court. https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?productCode=NN&abVariantId=0&te=1&nl=the-morning&emc=edit_nn_20230522&uri=nyt://newsletter/ef0d8330-d19f-578f-a86a-692b32c242e6
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