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Kevin McCarthy is only proving what Josh Hawley said: The Republican Party is dead [1]
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Date: 2023-01-04
You don’t have to trust me that the Republican Party is a badly animated cadaver going through the motions of governance. Republicans have said it theirselves. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-run away), declared that the party was dead and that it was “Time to bury it,” following the less than tidal performance in the midterms. He’s not wrong. The only time a Republican carried home a majority of the presidential election in this century was when George Bush managed it while Americans were still doing a post-9/11 patriotism lockstep.
It’s easy to complain that, over the last several election cycles, Republicans have had no positions except that they hate everyone and everything about the Democrats. Only that’s exactly what’s left of the GOP. Shambling about moaning “Woke! Woke!” is all there is to their pathetic existence. Still, they’ve done pretty well getting along on momentum and heavy prodding from Fox News. They’re dead, but they refuse to lie down. If only they didn’t drop scraps of disgusting rot across the American political landscape in the process, it would almost be admirable.
What happened in the House on Tuesday is exactly what you would expect from a party that has no platform; a party populated by people whose idea of loyalty extends no further than their own flaking skin; a party where ideas like “greater good” and “diversity” are treated with the enthusiasm of vampires sitting down to garlic toast. No one could put their own personal whims aside long enough to generate something that even looked like a coherent party.
Maybe Republicans will finally get a speaker nailed down on Wednesday. If they do, it won’t be because they all banded together around some core principles. It will be because Kevin McCarthy—if the winner even turns out to be McCarthy—gave away enough of his power to momentarily satisfy the individual thirsts of the members of his horde. Then he’ll finally have that shiny gavel he wanted, and everything can continue with a pretense of normality.
Or maybe Republicans will keep sharpening their own stake and finally put an end to this macabre farce. The answer isn’t clear. Certainly Republicans don’t know.
If someone could actually clean up the remains of the GOP and put a vital opposition party in its place, that might seem like a bad thing for Democrats. It wouldn’t be. It would be good for them, for Republicans, and for the nation.
Because right now, no matter how funny the latest round of voting may be, this zombie party isn’t good for anyone. Not even the zombies.
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