This is when purity tests overcome democratic ideals. Democracy is a process of debate and compromise. You likely never go home truly happy with everything because there’s no body of people that 100% agree on something, so you must compromise to make the system work.
Once you fill your representative seats with hardline ideologues you end up with people who begin purity testing every issue and candidate. If that candidate or issue doesn’t meet the representative’s ideals 100% of the way, they reject it. There’s no compromise nor debate, just rejection.
Having some ideologues in the House has always happened. The issue is that the GOP let too many in. They’ve spent decades telling their voters that they should get 100% of what they want and anything less is somehow a betrayal to the god and the nation. Once the ideologue percentage in the party exceeds to needed margin to hold the Speaker’s seat, you suddenly end up in purity test stasis. Nothing will satisfy the hardliners from both sides so you can’t get enough votes to move forward as a body.
How do you solve this? Mostly by finding the extreme edges of the party and trimming them off, then compromising with other reps who actually believe in a democratic system until you have a functional majority again. Good luck getting the modern GOP to bend because their voters don’t know how a republic should work, so they’re stuck being crushed by unbending anti-democratic voters on one side and anti-democratic ideologue representatives on the the other.
If they can’t bend, then they break. The only question is when and how much damage they do to the nation before they finally give out.
Should have impeached this pos when u had the chance. Dumbasses.
I know this is all for show. They think all the theatrics is somehow riveting the population into ignoring the 14 bills that are to be voted on this election.
1 of them is obviously worth it. Some of the rest sound nice, but probably hide some shady doings. With this crap going on, it’s hard to take the summaries for granted.
It would be hilarious if the non union plant that Trump visited, while certain outlets said he was visiting striking workers, ended up unionizing after they see a good deal being negotiated by UAW.
Upon examination, I do not understand what any Democrat would find of redeeming value to allow him to persist in the speakership.
The only redeeming quality of McCarthy is that he's already Speaker. Remember how much of a circus McCarthy's election was? All those rounds of voting? Well, that's going to happen all over again if he's ousted. Republicans aren't going to vote for any Democrat as Speaker and they're too divided amongst themselves to pick one of their own, if not McCarthy. And the 45-day clock is ticking until another potential government shutdown. Spending most of that time in internecine squabbles over the Speakership helps no one.
And they’ll submit another unacceptable map, then another, and another, until welp, it’s election time, guess we gotta go with what we have. It worked for them in Ohio.
I don’t get why they couldn’t have done that here in the first goddamn place. We’ll see in November but the August special election is the first step in showing that we may not be as red as we look, and we need a map that reflects that. Not that the GOP cares, but
Based on the Alabama legislature's failure to draw a map with the two majority-Black districts we ordered, we will direct the special master to design a map with three majority-Black districts. The legislature is invited to try for four.
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