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> Do the republicans look like a clown show? Sure. Is that a better overall outcome for the country than having a (barely, semi) functioning House? No (even if
by floren 3y ago
> Do the republicans look like a clown show? Sure. Is that a better overall outcome for the country than having a (barely, semi) functioning House? No (even if you're a democrat).
This presupposes that the Democrats prefer "a better overall outcome for the country" over "the Republicans look like a clown show". It seems like the predominating political theory of the day is that any bad thing is actually good, as long as you can convincingly blame the other party for it.
- bandyaboot 3y agoMaking it crystal clear that the clown show is, in fact, a clown show is the better overall, longer-term outcome for the country.
- anigbrowl 3y agoI mean nobody is stopping the Republicans from doing a sober self-assessment and agreeing among themselves on some sort of compromise - other than Republicans. Besides the factional issues described in the article, they also have several loose cannons in their ranks; George Santos, credibly charged with numerous frauds; Matt Gaetz, who has had his own brushes with the law and is a gleeful consensus-wrecker; and multiple hardline ideologues like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, and Andy Biggs, who are out at the ideological wings of the party but also have an apparently bottomless appetite for publicity, because their antics generate a reliable flow of donations which makes them less dependent on leadership for campaign funding.