Alexander KarnSome brains will explode tonight when forced to choose between celebrating McCarthy’s demise and lamenting Gaetz’s slimeball success.
But really #GOP radicalism and dysfunction are bad for this country, so we lose either way.
Happy Tuesday everyone!
The thing to remember—and I know I’m beginning to sound like a broken record here—is that the bumbling and incompetence of the GOP is not a glitch, but rather a feature. Incompetence won’t derail them, as some may think, because the objective now is not to govern effectively, but rather to break the mechanisms of democratic governance entirely.
You might wonder WHY? What’s to be gained through these failures? Why aren’t they taking advantage of their position?
I keep saying this: breaking our democratic institutions is the GOP’s way of demoralizing the electorate. The mission is to convince people that the system is so rotten and dysfunctional that it’s no longer worth preserving or fighting for.
It’s about discrediting what they hope you will then abandon.
It’s about softening us up for subsequent usurpation of the Constitution.
It’s a slow moving coup.
If you’re asking, “Why don’t the Republicans take advantage of their majority in the House to get something done, i.e., advance their agenda?” Then you’re missing the point. The agenda right now is to NOT get things done.
And once the system is fully paralyzed you can be sure they’ll move quickly to replace it with something more to their liking. Something more primal.
Hawkmoon