New House Speaker Mike Johnson may already be losing his first big clash with the hard-right lawmakers who are making the Republican majority and the nation ungovernable as time races down to yet another federal funding cut-off.
This is fine if the voting turnout was 100% but it was one of the lowest turnouts ever and the recent midterms helped cement that less than half the population votes.
That “majority” of people who want racial based genocide are just a small subset of a minority party which has changed the rules for winning or holding power every 2 years for the last 40 years to remain relevant to political discourse. There is nothing to understand other than they want to totally remove anything they don’t like from existing or being remembered. There is no negotiating with a threat to existing.
changed the rules for winning or holding power every 2 years for the last 40 years to remain relevant to political discourse. There is nothing to understand other than they want to totally remove anything they don’t like from existing or being remembered. There is no negotiating with a threat to existing.
This part I agree with. However,
That “majority” of people who want racial based genocide are just a small subset of a minority party
Is incorrect. If this were just a “small subset of a minority party”, Trump would have never been elected in 2016. He wouldn’t be ahead of Biden in the polls. People like Boebert, MTG, Jordan, etc. would never have risen to power. Decades-long establishment Republicans like Mitt Romney would not have been run out of the party for daring to hold an opinion that runs counter to the hivemind. We would not have hundreds of voter suppression laws, book bannings, and an entire culture war against the LGBT community.
None of this would have happened if these people really were just a fringe wing of the party. This is where people keep making the mistake. They insist that these views are held by a fringe wing that can be safely ignored, while ignoring the reality that that wing is a fuck of a lot bigger than people are willing to believe. There are things that people like MTG and Trump say and do on the daily today that would have signaled the end of their political careers just 10 years ago. But now, their antics are considered “normal”. That doesn’t happen when the people who enabled them are only a small subset of the minority party. It happens when that subset of the minority party is now emboldened to take on, embrace, and vote for positions that they wouldn’t have dared to admit to even a few years ago. But what was political suicide in 2003 or even 2013 is now a GOP prerequisite in 2023.
We can pretend that they’re only a small subset of the population that can be safely ignored, but the longer we do that, the more we’re going to wonder why the situation keeps getting worse. There are people now who are literally saying they’re OK with ending direct democracy, discrimination against minorities, suspending the Constitution, and even enacting martial law if it means they get their way. Think about that for a second. They’re not a small subset of the population any more, and their takeover of the GOP as a whole is almost complete.
The situation keeps getting worse because of the Heritage Foundation and other Wealthy fundamentalists pushing their personal agenda and trying to convince the public to go along. 65% of the country are against these lunatics. But they have big money backing them.
This is fine if the voting turnout was 100% but it was one of the lowest turnouts ever and the recent midterms helped cement that less than half the population votes.
That “majority” of people who want racial based genocide are just a small subset of a minority party which has changed the rules for winning or holding power every 2 years for the last 40 years to remain relevant to political discourse. There is nothing to understand other than they want to totally remove anything they don’t like from existing or being remembered. There is no negotiating with a threat to existing.
This part I agree with. However,
Is incorrect. If this were just a “small subset of a minority party”, Trump would have never been elected in 2016. He wouldn’t be ahead of Biden in the polls. People like Boebert, MTG, Jordan, etc. would never have risen to power. Decades-long establishment Republicans like Mitt Romney would not have been run out of the party for daring to hold an opinion that runs counter to the hivemind. We would not have hundreds of voter suppression laws, book bannings, and an entire culture war against the LGBT community.
None of this would have happened if these people really were just a fringe wing of the party. This is where people keep making the mistake. They insist that these views are held by a fringe wing that can be safely ignored, while ignoring the reality that that wing is a fuck of a lot bigger than people are willing to believe. There are things that people like MTG and Trump say and do on the daily today that would have signaled the end of their political careers just 10 years ago. But now, their antics are considered “normal”. That doesn’t happen when the people who enabled them are only a small subset of the minority party. It happens when that subset of the minority party is now emboldened to take on, embrace, and vote for positions that they wouldn’t have dared to admit to even a few years ago. But what was political suicide in 2003 or even 2013 is now a GOP prerequisite in 2023.
We can pretend that they’re only a small subset of the population that can be safely ignored, but the longer we do that, the more we’re going to wonder why the situation keeps getting worse. There are people now who are literally saying they’re OK with ending direct democracy, discrimination against minorities, suspending the Constitution, and even enacting martial law if it means they get their way. Think about that for a second. They’re not a small subset of the population any more, and their takeover of the GOP as a whole is almost complete.
The situation keeps getting worse because of the Heritage Foundation and other Wealthy fundamentalists pushing their personal agenda and trying to convince the public to go along. 65% of the country are against these lunatics. But they have big money backing them.