GOP Failure Watch Part VI (Majority in House Edition) The Insurrection Caucus Sh*tshow.

I think that's a lot of it.

But I also think for other GOP voters it's a matter of compartmentalization and willful ignorance.

 

Don't discount a lack of imagination or empathy. One of my biggest gripes about all those NYT "Trump voters in heartland diners" profiles was the unspoken assumption that it was Clinton-then-Biden voters who live in a 'bubble'. It never occurred to any of these coastal liberal elites writing these pieces that they were indeed in a 'bubble' in that they didn't realize how willfully ignorant and proudly provincial those voters are.

 

Related point: I love Tom Nichols, but his dogged refusal to see that Reagan paved the way for a lot of this is a huge blind spot for him.

 

I think you're right. Which is just sad, considering he wasn't a great father to his real kids.

It's probably silly to pretend I know the guy, but Nichols seems like somebody who could at least be decently troubled by that. Just not enough to reexamine his core beliefs.

 

The whole hashtag resistance is annoying basically

But i guess propaganda works hence why Biden invited them all to the white house

 

Especially the constant fallacy that the ex-urban / rural trump voter is poorer than the classic urban working class Biden voter when the opposite is true. urban areas have far more struggling working class voters.

 

To be clear they didn't say they thought it would happen - rather the opposite.

But the opportunity clearly existed when Cheney and co broke with the party trying to bring back Trump.

 

I mean sure - that is why he left the party. He has said it 100 times.

Personally I find Nichols highly annoying but he has literally become a democrat and admitted he was wrong about the GOP - especially what he thought was the fringe crazy turned out to be the dominant gene

 

I tried his podcast once and it was much too YAHS BOI for my taste - i'd rather listen to staid lawyers

 

God no!

I listened to the Meiselas legal podcast one time (the meidas touch brothers). But it's much too yes boi! for my taste. they have about 900 hours of episodes a week which is just them ranting about stuff. Similar to Mueller She Wrote which tends to be her just reading legal documents and talking about cats.

I have no problem if people like that stuff. I'd just rather listen to more straight up lawyers like Preet.

 

Absolutely. Also, to me legal analysis means talking about precedents and statutes and actual court rules like what will or won't fly in front of a judge. The hashtag resistance coverage totally lacks that actual court room stuff.

I'm the first to accept that Andrew Weissmann's coverage is popular because it is total law pawn but at least he talks about the actual law and not some fanfic version

 

If only people like McCarty could have done something about all this

“This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down.”

— After House Republicans once again failed to pass a basic procedural rule to fund the Pentagon, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) hits some members of his own conference pic.twitter.com/Qt4AR71jP3

— The Recount (@therecount) September 21, 2023

 

For those wondering: https://www.thebulwark.com/podcast-episode/a-raging-bull-elephant/

Man, do they rip into the Reps:
Does Gaetz know anything other than "no?"
Did McCarthy plan on losing the military budget vote? If he did, what kind of plan could it possibly be?
What happens if Gaetz calls for McCarthy to stand down? Who would take his place?
And the impeachment bit ruined any chance of the Dems working with the Reps.

Also, why is Trump going to see the striking auto workers in Michigan?