I didn't say "they were the good ones." I said that if you took the people from the 1980 Congress and brought them to the present time and had them watch how m

I didn't say "they were the good ones." I said that if you took the people from the 1980 Congress and brought them to the present time and had them watch how modern Congress operate, that they would be horrified of the behavior of the Republicans and disappointed by the behavior of the Democrats. None of them, for example, would have ever even considered refusing to hold judicial confirmation hearings for a vacant Supreme Court seat for a year. Nor would they have found any of Trump's antics to be worthy of anything but scorn and derision, up to and including the southern Democrats of that era who would identify as Republicans today. Especially in the Senate where they used to be far more independent-minded than they currently are. There aren't any Madison Cawthorne / Marjorie Taylor Greene / Lauren Bobert / Matt Gaetzes on the Democratic side of the aisle. They have nothing at all of substance to offer in congressional hearings, always angling for the next soundbyte. As shrill as AOC is on the other side of the aisle, she still at least goes to those hearings prepared to ask relevant questions.