#783 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Monday October 30)
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Good morning, I’m on a losing streak. What I’d like to happen inevitably seems to be the opposite of what seems to be happening on multiple fronts. Here are two: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT GREATER RISK TODAY THAN IT WAS LAST WEEK I was convinced that the Republican moderates would find a way to elect one of their own as Speaker, demonstrating their desire to govern by joining with Democrats. Instead, there are two big winners from the “Speaker Circus”—Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump. In the end, Gaetz’s gambit to remove Speaker McCarthy and install a “true believer” from the angry, election-denying proto-fascist, anti-pluralism, religious right worked like a charm. That the process had to go through multiple iterations that served to demonstrate the power of the small minority was even better! In the meantime, serially-indicted failed coup organizer Donald Trump was able to wield his power over the Republican caucus in a way previously unimaginable for an ex-president, who never won a majority, cost his party key seats in two election cycles, and abetted the loss of Senatorial control. What remains of the Republican party is now the Trump party.
#783 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Monday October 30)
#783 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Monday…
#783 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Monday October 30)
Good morning, I’m on a losing streak. What I’d like to happen inevitably seems to be the opposite of what seems to be happening on multiple fronts. Here are two: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT GREATER RISK TODAY THAN IT WAS LAST WEEK I was convinced that the Republican moderates would find a way to elect one of their own as Speaker, demonstrating their desire to govern by joining with Democrats. Instead, there are two big winners from the “Speaker Circus”—Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump. In the end, Gaetz’s gambit to remove Speaker McCarthy and install a “true believer” from the angry, election-denying proto-fascist, anti-pluralism, religious right worked like a charm. That the process had to go through multiple iterations that served to demonstrate the power of the small minority was even better! In the meantime, serially-indicted failed coup organizer Donald Trump was able to wield his power over the Republican caucus in a way previously unimaginable for an ex-president, who never won a majority, cost his party key seats in two election cycles, and abetted the loss of Senatorial control. What remains of the Republican party is now the Trump party.