re: #203 Interesting Times

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You know, say what you will about the GOP leadership (I could fill books with my thoughts), they at least try to do the stupid shit they run on.

They knew that repealing the ACA was political suicide, but they did it because that’s what their base wanted.

They pushed through wildly unpopular tax cuts because that’s what their base had been promised.

They’re presently flooding the body politic with massively unpopular forced-birth bills because that’s what their brain-dead base demands.

And they are protecting Donny with the sort of mentality that one rarely views outside of third world banana republics because to do less would mean their base screaming bloody murder.

Yes, the things they do are reprehensible and will be viewed by future generations as a dark period for American politics. But they don’t care, because they’re focused on winning reelection. Meanwhile, their counterparts across the aisle are doing what they’ve always done: Turning political gold into shit because they’re scared to death that the “mushy middle” will abandon them if they show the least bit of partisanship.