And now they’ve just made the anti-democracy extremist Speaker of the House.
The GOP Speaker and presumptive nominee for President are both anti-American insurrectionists who want to tear down our democracy and institute single party rule. And the oligarch-owned media will absolutely shut up about it and pretend it’s normal.
Sounds like it’s time to hit the oligarchs where it hurts: them personally.
Republicans would veto a bill that banned abortion nationwide and provided free guns for the babies if it raised taxes on the rich by 0.1%.
“I’m hungry, let’s go get something to eat”
“Cool how about tacos?”
“No, I don’t want tacos.”
“Okay, how about Thai food?”
“No, I don’t want Thai food.”
“Well what do you want to eat?”
“I don’t know, you pick something.”
Except policy.
Which is pretty weird considering many of them aren’t wealthy and only stand to lose from such policies.
There’s gonna be some really great attack ads running in swing districts next year. Every vulnerable moderate just got handcuffed to this guy. Now they can be accused of supporting all the most extreme, unpopular, and unlawful things in Johnson’s record. And on top of that, this almost certainly means that the agenda moving forward will be dominated by things which would alienate moderates and independent voters.
Apparently the lackluster mid terms weren’t enough of a wake up call. I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns out to be the moment that the Republicans lost the house. (Of course, I also wouldn’t be surprised to see the Democrats find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory)
If the Republican party ever becomes irrelevant, Democrats will be stuck waiting to find out what their new opposition party will be. If it winds up being an actual progressive party, I don’t really see what options Democrats would be left with. Either they try to gain support from people leaving the Republican party, or they try to be “progressive enough” without losing corporate support?
If Democrats share that uncertainty about a post-Republican future, and if they think the way most status quo actors seem to, then I imagine they’d prefer the Republican party to hang on as long as possible.
What I think that strategy would look like: Democrats going as fiscally conservative as they can while still remaining left of Republicans. Democrats lamenting their inability to make progressive changes, all the while not investing much more than lip service towards advancing said progressive changes.
If the Republican party ever becomes irrelevant, Democrats will be stuck waiting to find out what their new opposition party will be.
My guess is a split between moderate Dems and fleeing “90s Republicans” on one side, and more extremist progressive Dems uniting with extremist Republicans as allies of convenience on the other, fighting to be more isolationist and nationalist.
Essentially I think the future debates will be over the role of America in society, as economic issues are largely a “solved meta” and most social issues tend to fall by the wayside as time marches on. No political party is seriously trying to contest gay marriage the way they did abortion, for instance.
Middle vs non-middle seems like the battle of the future.
You don’t have any extremist Dems. You have a right wing party that has two centrists and you have a party full of fascists.
Truth and facts are the enemy of the Republican Party.
Yeah sure.
Conservatives elect speaker who doesn’t believe in dinosaurs, ancient history or climate change, wants to make homosexuality illegal, voted to overturn the election and did everything in his power to thwart it, reporters aren’t allowed to question it, but it’s those opposed who are “scum”.
Them’s Nazi words, quite literally. You really need an education.
Imagine believing it’s the leftists who have the money and means to place bots on obscure internet forums 😂
"Mike Johnson is Jim Jordan in a sports coat.”
— Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Viet Shelton, quoted by The Atlantic.