House Freedom Caucus members opposing the speaker's deal with Democrats are revealing a self-destructive, countercultural tendency to reject all compromise.
Both Republicans and Democrats face risks in impeachment hearings, including over the evidence of Hunter Biden’s business dealings and how much his father knew.in the debt ceiling fight and vowed to use the budget “process” to force spending cuts from, well, everyone. They claim McCarthy made them promises he didn’t keep — which might be true. They insist government borrowing and spending are out of control and must be dealt with — which is certainly true. Something has to be done.
And then, eventually, a deal is worked out, but only after enough damage is self-inflicted. It’s akin to declaring, “Do what I demand or I will repeatedly smash my hand with this hammer until you relent.” Or maybe it’s like 1960s student radicals occupying the Berkeley or Kenyon cafeteria demanding better library hours, more parking and a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam. Or maybe it’s in the Leninist spirit of “the worse, the better.” After all, people who make a living from catastrophizing like catastrophes. As McCarthyMonday, “It’s almost like they want to walk you into a shutdown and then blame you for the shutdown.
That seems to be where their dashboard saint, Donald Trump, is coming from. Over the weekend, he reiterated that the GOP should behave as if it has all the leverage. On social media, he posted, “
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