Given the extent to which the GOP has delegitimized itself, it would be far more legitimatizing to pass legislation without any Republican votes. We shouldn't want fascist support. In much the same way, a scientist shouldn't want a flat-earther validating their dissertation.
Or to restate slightly differently, we've reached a point where Republicans have so degraded themselves that bipartisanship would harm the legitimacy of a bill for anybody who cares about decency, equality, fairness, rule of law, or shared reality based on empirical proof.
I'd feel the same way about a Voting Protection bill that had received broad Republican support as I would about one that was being backed by the KKK.
As such, I don't think there would be a better sign for our future survival—as a democracy, a country, and a species—than a long series of bills vigorously opposed by 100% of Republicans and signed into law despite their worst efforts and their loud outrage.

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30 Jan
Still the most honest statement made by an American conservative this year about the essence of their politics.
The only thing keeping a massive number of white Americans from becoming terrorists has been their knowledge that American legal institutions exist to deliver violence to minorities, and the proof is how quickly they've turned to terrorism at the first hint that this might stop.
They've always wanted to preserve the option to become terrorists.

That's what the guns are about. That's why gun massacres don't lead to change. The massacres were always the point. For American conservatives, the ability to massacre has always been the point.
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29 Jan
Just purge all police departments and military of all the white supremacists and nazis.
Gates won’t work if you’ve got cops willing to open them up for the nazis and the pose for selfies. Thought that was the lesson.
Walls don’t work, it turns out.
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I honestly think it’s been so long since this guy has said anything he believes that he no longer knows what he believes, or whether he ever believed anything, and when he dreams, he dreams of endless falling.
Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham are in a fierce competition over which of them can sell their soul for less.
Marco Rubio met the devil at the crossroads with his guitar and when the devil appeared Marco gave the devil the guitar and his soul and just told the devil to pay whatever he thought it was worth.
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not workingest bible-quotingest drink of water mahfah
It was not 4 weeks ago that Republicans tried to overthrow our democracy and we're supposed to go pretending they're a legitimate party that should be allowed access to government buildings, it's crazy.
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I really hate the phrase "political divide," which seems designed to paper over the fact that we have a major political party that's actively trying to demolish democracy in order to establish a genocidal autocratic police state.

The divide is real but it isn't the problem.
The reason big houses should rethink conservative publishing is because the GOP is actively trying to demolish democracy in order to establish a genocidal autocratic police state, and while there's money to be made from publishing them, nobody should want to make money that way.
I'm not really trying to single out Publisher's Weekly, it's just "political divide" is an all-pervasive phrase unhelpful b/c it locates the problem with the divide rather than the cause.

It would be better replaced by "white supremacist autocracy" in almost all cases.
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One is social consequence for an exposed pattern of empowered abuse. They hate it.

The other is strategic coordinated outrage abusing a target over an invented/minor infraction. They love it.
Conservatives love to blur the lines.

They pretend that the first one is the second one, when one of their own has been caught abusing their power for years.

Conservatives love to engage in the second one under the auspices of the first one, when they see the opportunity.
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The way you can tell: watch patterns of abuse.

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