The GOP is now naturally a party of opposition, not of government.
1. Many (@gtconway3d; @AdamSerwer) have commented on the GOP's gradual embrace of ideological rigidity over competence, and know-nothingism in response to inconvenient facts. Good administration requires a
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1. Many (@gtconway3d; @AdamSerwer) have commented on the GOP's gradual embrace of ideological rigidity over competence, and know-nothingism in response to inconvenient facts. Good administration requires a
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basic ability to admit reality and solicit expertise in response to its problems:
2. But I am also
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https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1364946882833842189. This is increasingly beyond the national GOP, where ideological policing by Fox News is a severe constraint on adaptation:
https://twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1362271090815340553.
2. But I am also
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thinking rhetorically, of the ease, like putting on an old glove, with which the GOP and Fox have slid back into hysterical opposition to a Democratic president:
It's been SO easy; all the old tropes & tricks can just be rolled out once again without
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https://twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1361892265329795076.
It's been SO easy; all the old tropes & tricks can just be rolled out once again without
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missing a beat. How many times have you heard some rando GOP congressman suddenly talk about the debt/deficit in the last two months? And Democratic personal 'scandals,' an old Fox favorite from the Clinton years, are back too: N Tanden is mean on Twitter, H Biden did some
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business in China, J Psaki didn't quite track POTUS in her remarks! Liberal media hypocrisy! Campus PC is out of control!
All this is just empty schtick, the same old same old, a reflex almost. There's no policy effort here. In fact, there's no effort here at all. It's just
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All this is just empty schtick, the same old same old, a reflex almost. There's no policy effort here. In fact, there's no effort here at all. It's just
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BS for TV. Fox wants viewers for profit, and that's much easier in opposition, because you can scare the hell out of people more easily by saying anything about the other side and don't have to propose serious solutions.
So opposition is their default mode now. This is what
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So opposition is their default mode now. This is what
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they know and feel most comfortable doing.
You could even seen this, bizarrely, when Trump was president. Trump and Fox didn't even know how to act like a responsible party of government when they were in government. Instead, they behaved as insurgents (fighting the Deep
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You could even seen this, bizarrely, when Trump was president. Trump and Fox didn't even know how to act like a responsible party of government when they were in government. Instead, they behaved as insurgents (fighting the Deep
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State). They didn't even know what to do when they were in power.
So let the GOP talk itself into permanent opposition, where it doesn't even want to govern anymore bc it's no longer capable of it and bc its now-dominant media-entertainment wing prefers oppositional hysteria.
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So let the GOP talk itself into permanent opposition, where it doesn't even want to govern anymore bc it's no longer capable of it and bc its now-dominant media-entertainment wing prefers oppositional hysteria.
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