Thread by @l78lancer

Can we talk?

Republicans proved from Day One of the Obama administration who they are. In the ensuing 12 years of internecine conservative warfare, things have only become more hostile, deprave, and literally deadly. They deserve no bites from that apple now under a Biden admin.

It's long past time to stop pretending that republicans will regain their sense and sensibilities, and come around to the notion of normal, regular, mature governance, ever. The republican party of the 1980s is gone.

I hope Biden doesn't waste too much time or effort coddling republicans who, as a practicing principle, will never cooperate because they see no benefit in doing so. All of their power comes from obstruction, dismantling, or breaking systems of governance to block the majority.

The democrats in the House know and have learned well that it is entirely possible to spend inordinate amounts of time kissing republicans' asses to do the simplest, bare minimum of things that ultimately they still simply not do And, they knew they wouldn't from the start.

The entire exercise for republicans from the start is to grind things to a halt. senate democrats are still learning the lesson the hard way. That seems largely because the fictional pretense of the senate being a great deliberative body is in the way.

The thought of republicans being completely irresponsible has no meaning, and for them there is no redeeming value in fulfilling their constituents' needs. Their constituency rewards their intransigence, so worthwhile points consensus are virtually nonexistent.

Therefore, notwithstanding Biden's natural tendency and disposition to perpetually reach across the isle, they will need to have internalized the message from the start.

If they invest too much time catering and pandering to conservatives for the sake of across the isle pseudo-partisanship, they they will find administration hampered if not crippled. We know this. We've seen this movie before.

Full stop.

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