The New York Times reports, If Tennessee’s Legislature Looks Broken, It’s Not Alone (excerpt): There are 99 legislators in the Tennessee House of Representatives, the body that voted on Thursday to expel two of its Democratic members for leading an anti-gun protest in the chamber. Sixty of them had no opponent in last November’s election. … Read more
The “debate about debates” that only the self-important media villagers give a damn about flared anew last night. The media is supposed to be the “watchdog of democracy,” but the GQP-friendly media in Arizona is doing its damnedest to normalize Republican anti-democracy extremism, insurrection, and election denialism (Just read The Arizona Republic fka The Arizona Republican … Read more
Dana Milbank writes at the Washington Post, The GOP is sick. It didn’t start with Trump — and won’t end with him. This essay was adapted from “The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party” by Dana Milbank. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday. All rights reserved. It began where it ended, on the … Read more
Above Image: h/t The Daily Beast. Wajahat Ali, a columnist for The Daily Beast, writes Republicans Must Answer for ‘Great Replacement Theory’ Violence: Republicans and the conservative media ecosystem have to answer for the blood on their hands. Either through innuendo or direct statements, they continue to promote the white supremacist “great replacement theory” which … Read more
Paul Waldman recently wrote, The right is done retreating in the culture war. It’s time to roll back rights. Republicans revealed a great deal about themselves during the confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, little of it flattering. If you were paying close attention, you might have caught the signs … Read more