Thread by @MaryLTrump

I was riveted by the Republican chaos surrounding the vote for Speaker of the House but it didn’t last long. By the end of day two, it all felt rather shameful and demoralizing.

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The mainstream media, in trying to make sense of the intra-party chaos, tried to look at the conflict through an ideological prism but that only makes sense if there’s an ideology organized around the principle of hating Kevin McCarthy.

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They decided to label McCarthy and his supporters “moderate” and the approximately 20 anti-McCarthy holdouts “conservative” but unless there’s a universe in which “conservative” and “moderate” are synonyms and they both mean “treasonous,” this is patently absurd.

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McCarthy is also an election denier and enabler of Donald—and the 201 Republicans who voted for him 15 times are well aware of this. So, we now live in a democracy in which 11 of the 17 House committee chairs voted to overturn the results of a free and fair election.

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And we are at the mercy of a Republican House that will hold hostage programs like Social Security that are designed to keep Americans out of poverty or force the U.S. to default on its debt, triggering a global economic crisis.

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These Republicans conserve nothing. They are moderate about nothing. They reserve money for causes that do nothing to help improve the lives of the vast majority of the American people.

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They are seditionists. They are domestic terrorists. They are authoritarians. They are autocrats. They are fascists. They are traitors.

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