I’d say the key point is this bit:
"The entire republican party is currently enabling Donald Trump. We’re currently in the midst of a government shutdown that he promises could go on “months or years” if we do not give him the incredibly stupid wall he wants (which he promised mexico would pay for). This is entirely on Trump and McConnell. Which republicans have stood up and said, “this is not okay and needs to stop”? Which republicans have been willing to actually do something about this mess? Oh, fucking nobody? That’s kind of telling.
Your house is not in order."
I don’t think it’s disputable that the democrats have been acting as the adults in the room. “When they go low, we go high” and whatnot. Meanwhile, the republicans have… not.
There’s a clear line that can be drawn from the tea party revolution of 2010 to the current dysfunction. McConnell’s tenure as senate majority leader is basically a long list of impressive accomplishments born out of shredding political norms, and once he gained power, he realized how impossible it was to use those principles to actually legislate.
Look at 2016-2018. Republicans controlled all three branches of government, and the only significant legislature they passed was a tax cut that had the dubious distinction of being the most unpopular tax cut ever. They also rammed through a SCOTUS justice who has absolutely no business being on the highest court on a near-perfect party line vote. They failed their signature legislative promise of repealing Obamacare, because they never, ever had a realistic plan to “repeal and replace” - merely a base that was fed insane nonsense and didn’t have to consider the upsides of Obamacare until it was almost repealed. Once it became clear what the consequences of “repeal and replace” would be, it quickly became unbelievably unpopular. We have the first ever government shutdown when one party controls all branches of government. Meanwhile, congress has seated a representative who assaulted a reporter and barely avoided seating a goddamn serial child molester.
That’s just the last two years. That’s just the most high-profile issues, barely scratching the surface of what’s going on. That’s just congressional republicans. Which is particularly telling, because it ignores the elephant in the room, which is President Donald Trump. The only republicans in congress who are or were willing to stand up to the president did so in token, meaningless ways, voting his way nearly 100% of the time before quietly retiring (or dying) so that a more pro-trump republican could take their place. And do I have to go over how fucked up that is? I really don’t want to; if you can’t see that the president is a real and present danger by now, then there’s nothing I could say to convince you. But as said, we’re now in day 13 of the second-longest government shutdown ever, brought on because the President refuses to sign any appropriations bills that don’t contain funding for his stupid fucking wall mexico was supposed to pay for, and the senate majority leader refuses to try to override that veto, even though a clean bill is and was available, and passed the senate unanimously. That, and he’s leading what can only be described as a disinformation campaign - or he’s so completely detached from reality that he has no idea what is and is not true. Either one would be terrifying to anyone who cares about the integrity of the office.
Your house. Is not. In Order.
