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1/ For those who can't understand the "dysfunction" of the House GOP, you don't get it. This isn't dysfunction in the minds of the far-right MAGA members: it's their goal. Discredit government/governing altogether bc they never believed in it really...🧵
2/ The far right believes government should be shut down bc they don't believe in public service, the public interest, or probably 95% of what government does (from environmental protection to education funding to anything other than tanks, guns & weapons)...
3/ And to make the governing body itself fall apart fits perfectly w/their desire to discredit elections as fraudulent even in the absence of evidence. It breeds cynicism. What good is democracy anyway? What good are elections? What's the point of civic engagement?...
4/ This is all authoritarian playbook 101. Make most people so fed up with the idea of elections & elected officials that they just disengage from politics, all the while knowing your own hard core culture war bigots, Christian nationalists, etc. will never disengage...
5/ This way, they win, not bc most people support them but bc their minority of a minority stays active (because of Jesus or something) while less ideological people just give up in frustration. What's happening in the House is not failure to the far right. It's deliberate...
6/ Chaos is not a glitch for them, it's a feature, designed to get the rest of us to throw up our hands in disgust. Just like their war on text/library books and classroom lessons was to discredit public education broadly...in honest moments, they admit as much...
7/ Folks need to stop acting like these people believe in anything, or really care about policy. They do it all "for the comms" as former Rep Madison Cawthon once admitted: to get on TV or go viral w/some rant about Biden, trans folk, the border, etc...
8/ While that comms-driven strategy doesn't get anything actually accomplished, it guarantees these people get re-elected by the cultists in their districts. So it's great job security for more comms-driven efforts. Wash, rinse, repeat...
9/ Government & public service is for suckers to these people: for people who couldn't make it as hedge fund managers or whatever. So even though they went into government work as elected officials, they never really believed in it. It was about power, getting on TV, etc...
10/ In the era before 24-hr news cycles, most of these more recently elected members wouldn't have even run for office. You think Matt Gaetz would have wanted to be in Congress in the 70s/80s? Hell no...no FOX or Twitter. What fun would that have been?...
11/ Treating the modern GOP as a real political party is a fool's errand. It should have been obvious when they decided they didn't even need a platform anymore: basically just "MAGA, Trump and trigger the libs for the lulz."...
12/ These are not grown ups. They are kids who've been given the keys to the car despite not having even taken the training wheels off their bikes yet. They can't steer, or brake, or anything else. Sadly, they like it that way. And that's why we're in this place. END
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