I tried to make sense of the Republican position in the fiscal hostage-crisis in the capital. I failed. Beutler tried to make sense of the latest GOP spinning. He failed. The world tried to figure out why a minority of one party that just lost the election in the US is threatening to blow up the entire global economy and precipitate the second Great Depression. They failed. The answer? Perhaps race is one aspect; the far right’s view of compromise as total defeat is yet another.
But say this for American conservatism: they’re the only conservatives on the planet who want to destroy their own credit.
Readers pushed back on my somewhat Straussian reading of Machiavelli; this otter just needs a bear; and the polls began to tilt further against the tactics of the GOP.
The most popular post? “There Is No There There.” Second? “This Revolutionary Pope.”
See you in the morning.
(Photo: Banksy in Brooklyn, via Banksy.co.uk. Related post here.)
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