The Republican party is at last paying the price of its Faustian pact with Trump | Michael Cohen
The Republican party is at last paying the price of its Faustian pact with Trump | Michael Cohen
The ousting by extremists of House speaker Kevin McCarthy is a sign of the GOP’s willingness to test the limits of US democracy
No they aren't. Nothing is happening. I'm exhausted watching day in and day out criminals going unpunished, regulatory groups being more and more corrupt and having every article read like "we finally got em!" Nothing is changing for the better. It's just political drama to keep people from burning this country down.
It's exhausting. I'm exhausted. One of their goals is to wear us down until we just accept something that seems like a compromise just fire a moment of peace. And for fucks sake we could use one. But as shitty as things are, we're a hell of a lot better off than just burning everything down and starting over.
The American people are the ones paying the consequences, not the GOP. Every stupid game they play is at the cost of ordinary peoples' lives and well-being.
Lol as the article indicates, things are happening. Every election after Trump won the presidency has been the GOP losing. Midterms and even his 1st reelection campaign have been decent losses for the GOP. Things don't seem like they will get better for them anytime soon, especially since they have almost not changed at all to the electoral feedback.
Sure, but they still have a house majority, control the Supreme Court (and a lot of judges in other courts). They basically still have all three branches of government in a stranglehold. That is far from seeing any serious consequences, and they will be able to fuck shit up for everybody for an indefinite time into the future.
This is the paradox of the Republican party, though. When they're losing is when they're winning. It's a nihilistic apocalyptic group that thrives on the fears of people, much like a terrorist organization. Despite everything pointing to them being a diminishing minority, they're able to control or paralyze much of federal and state governments, and they're going to continue to do this for decades to come.
I want to see them suffer real consequences for their actions for the next several decades. I want them to genuflect in front of Americans and show actual remorse and work to repair all they've done.
I just want them to vanish, to go away with a whimper, to be considered by our grandchildren's generation to be as laughably irrelevant and impotent as the Bull Moose party. Prosecution would be great, but honestly I'll be happy enough with their oblivion.
That will likely never happen; they view humility as weakness.
Yep this.
Real men don't admit they were wrong /s
We’ve all been paying the price for years. Do they ever learn? No.
What they learn: There’s no consequences.
This article has been published daily for the last 7 years.
At first I thought the author, Michael Cohen, was the Michael Cohen, which would have made for a very different article.
The Guardian is still a good newspaper in their factual reporting, especially as they're still not paywalled, but their opinion pieces (comment is free) have been very click baity for years now.
It's always best to take them with a large pinch of salt.
Imagine if an American publication the size of The Guardian had the guts to publish this article. There’s - gasp French! In there. Big words! Oh mercy, I do declare!
They wont. American corporate news is insufferably broken. All hail the conquering dollar.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
More than 11 years ago, before Donald Trump emerged from the primordial ooze of the far-right fever swamp, before the aborted January 6 insurrection and before the latest spasm of Republican extremism felled House speaker Kevin McCarthy, two renowned political scientists, Thomas Mann, and Norman Ornstein, put their finger on the essence of increasingly dysfunctional US politics: the Republican party.
Mann and Ornstein argued that the Grand Old Party (GOP) had become an “insurgent outlier” that was “ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition”.
Legislating is not seen as a tool for bettering the plight of the American people but rather an opportunity to troll Democrats and play to the perceived slights of the party’s rank-and-file supporters.
McCarthy, like countless Republican supplicants over the past eight years, realised that his political aspirations were directly tied to his willingness to support Trump and the extremist forces within the party that have rallied around him.
Another Republican apostate, former presidential candidate and current Utah senator Mitt Romney, who twice voted to convict Trump in his impeachment trials, recently announced that he wouldn’t run for re-election.
In a series of interviews with the Atlantic’s McKay Coppins, he recounted how, “in public”, his fellow Republican senators “played their parts as Trump loyalists, often contorting themselves rhetorically to defend the president’s most indefensible behaviour.
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