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The Republican party is at last paying the price of its Faustian pact with Trump | Michael Cohen
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I want to see them suffer real consequences for their actions for the next several decades. I want them to genuflect in front of Americans and show actual remorse and work to repair all they've done.
I just want them to vanish, to go away with a whimper, to be considered by our grandchildren's generation to be as laughably irrelevant and impotent as the Bull Moose party. Prosecution would be great, but honestly I'll be happy enough with their oblivion.
I want him to become the joke that Nixon has become in Futurama. Only remembered for being an evil idiot
AROOOOOOOO
Nixon resigned in 1974 and the damage he caused to Republicans was overwhelmingly repaired by 1980 when Ronald Reagan swept into the Oval Office. Don't get your hopes up even if Trump goes away - these bastards are relentless.
That will likely never happen; they view humility as weakness.
Yep this.
Real men don't admit they were wrong /s
We’ve all been paying the price for years. Do they ever learn? No.
What they learn: There’s no consequences.
This article has been published daily for the last 7 years.
Except it was published a day ago. I don't recall ever seeing one like it, no joke. You must be saying that all articles that mention any consequence to the GOP from every source on earth are all the same. Even if I were to accept that ridiculous concept, "daily for the last 7 years" sounds wrong af
At first I thought the author, Michael Cohen, was the Michael Cohen, which would have made for a very different article.
Imagine if an American publication the size of The Guardian had the guts to publish this article. There’s - gasp French! In there. Big words! Oh mercy, I do declare!
They wont. American corporate news is insufferably broken. All hail the conquering dollar.
Don't get too excited, when it comes to domestic politics, they're still all the same.
The Guardian is still a good newspaper in their factual reporting, especially as they're still not paywalled, but their opinion pieces (comment is free) have been very click baity for years now.
It's always best to take them with a large pinch of salt.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
More than 11 years ago, before Donald Trump emerged from the primordial ooze of the far-right fever swamp, before the aborted January 6 insurrection and before the latest spasm of Republican extremism felled House speaker Kevin McCarthy, two renowned political scientists, Thomas Mann, and Norman Ornstein, put their finger on the essence of increasingly dysfunctional US politics: the Republican party.
Mann and Ornstein argued that the Grand Old Party (GOP) had become an “insurgent outlier” that was “ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition”.
Legislating is not seen as a tool for bettering the plight of the American people but rather an opportunity to troll Democrats and play to the perceived slights of the party’s rank-and-file supporters.
McCarthy, like countless Republican supplicants over the past eight years, realised that his political aspirations were directly tied to his willingness to support Trump and the extremist forces within the party that have rallied around him.
Another Republican apostate, former presidential candidate and current Utah senator Mitt Romney, who twice voted to convict Trump in his impeachment trials, recently announced that he wouldn’t run for re-election.
In a series of interviews with the Atlantic’s McKay Coppins, he recounted how, “in public”, his fellow Republican senators “played their parts as Trump loyalists, often contorting themselves rhetorically to defend the president’s most indefensible behaviour.
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