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Specialty of the House: GOP Chaos [1]

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Date: 2023-01-05

At this writing, elephants stampede in all directions. On one hand, their optics of dysfunction lack luster. Gravitas. And common sense. On the other hand, this is what they do. For decades, a Nixon protegee/Trump Svengali has couched the GOP’s overall approach as sheer “chaos.” For the most part (for the party, not the country), it’s worked like a charm.

Call it the Roger Stone Age. While favoring histrionics and demagoguery over high-minded decorum, tuskers have won more than their fair share.

Nor are we home free just yet. Two years hence, electoral votes will need to be certified. In the House, the party of ‘win-or-coup’ will hold the gavel. As J6 select committee veteran Adam Schiff (D-CA) warns, things may not go smoothly.

At this writing, some 20 GOPers stall the naming of a Speaker. Most (if not all) of them have supported their party’s casus belli that Trump supposedly beat President Biden in 2020. For them, “There are no rules in war” (quoting Ginni Thomas).

Can they (and other Big Liars) evolve into fine, upstanding citizens during the next 24 months? Can a guppy grow large enough to swallow a whale?

Some progressives derive glee from the red cult’s hot mess in the House. Alas, I’m left cold. Trouble is, I recall Time magazine’s 5/18/2009 cover. It sports the GOP’s elephant emblem- captioned “Endangered Species?”

What rescued the legions of dittoheads was not dignity, common sense, or competence. It was the crazed, often violent and/or racist overtones of its nut wing, the so-called “Tea Party.”

Shades of today’s disgraced Matt Gaetz. The snapping turtlesque Jim Jordan. And Marjorie Taylor ‘Space Lasers’ Greene. For all their truculent lunacy, the tea baggers brought their party stampeding from the wilderness- to the point of shellacking the Dems in 2010, and Trumping them in 2016.

All things considered, what has become the cult of Q still looks lean and hungry. Crazy like a fox. Bizarro and berserk but unbowed. Ready to rumble. And, for a group that arguably has aided and comforted the “enemies...domestic” who ransacked their workplace two years back, pretty damned high and mighty.

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