“This is that moment when the American people need their government, but if you don’t embrace and appreciate the nobility, the responsibility, the heavy, heavy responsibility and weight, then you see what happens,” Sen. Kamala Harris said in an interview. https://t.co/E6H5Npusk8— Robert Costa (@costareports) April 3, 2020
It can't be unseen.
The GOP is beholden to Trump; that much is clear. Why, is the question. I'm not much for grand theories which explain everything, especially when those theories are simple. But this one, which I'll have time to discuss later, is making me tie things together and make sense of current events, even of Trump's grotesque incompetence. The argument is that the GOP under Trump is no longer a political party, but a separatist movement. I don't have time to go into the details of that argument; but these tweets seems to fit perfectly. The basic argument is this:
The common view is that the Republicans are so partisan they are willing to follow Trump to hell. But that explanation is unsatisfying. Partisanship is one thing. Surrendering to the enemy is another. That, to me, explains why Ted Cruz said, “If we call John Bolton, I promise you, we are calling Hunter Biden.” Cruz isn’t voicing ordinary partisanship so much as the political desperation of a suicide bomber.
I said yesterday the Republican Party is best understood as an insurrection. Perhaps “separatist movement” is a better phrase. That would communicate the binary thinking of the Republican value system. There are two, separate but not equal.
Tell me that doesn't explain today's news better than anything else, especially McConnell's announcement that the only concern the Senate has for the future is judicial appointments.
The same people who had a problem with Hunter Biden’s qualifications are totally cool with the president’s know-nothing son-in-law playing a big role in solving a global pandemic. It’s almost like they’re completely unprincipled scumbags— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) April 2, 2020
Why is it remotely acceptable to the country that the president’s unaccountable son-in-law address the nation and serve in a decision-making role in a generational crisis of historic magnitude for which he has no requisite qualifications, preparation or experience? https://t.co/JmIEWvfRS6— Carrie Cordero (@carriecordero) April 3, 2020
The same people who had a problem with Hunter Biden’s qualifications are totally cool with the president’s know-nothing son-in-law playing a big role in solving a global pandemic. It’s almost like they’re completely unprincipled scumbags— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) April 2, 2020
Pres Trump has questioned whether governors need requested equipment. "I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators," he said.— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 2, 2020
Jared Kushner says today governors need to show "there's a real need." He said, "Most governors off the bat didn't know what they needed."
“I think everybody would have to be thrilled with how most states are doing,” Trump says. “Thrilled.” Earlier he described the US as essentially a series of countries, some of which are doing well.— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 2, 2020
Jeff tried to ask questions about what was being communicated as Birx kept speaking and the president kept saying what he insisted she intended to stay. https://t.co/DGyikSQQeQ— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 2, 2020
Trump says he is leaving the press conference for a bit but will return. "Jared Kushner is going to say a few words," he says. A first for Kushner at the podium.— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) April 2, 2020
13 days pic.twitter.com/QovsbxjIb2— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 2, 2020
Here's Jared Kushner going for the world record of most meaningless corporate buzzwords used in a single one-minute video clip pic.twitter.com/Vy1QJEhLQa— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 2, 2020
“You have to take inventory in your state, and you have to be able to prove that there’s a real need,” Kushner days of supplies.— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 2, 2020
The website for the federal stockpile literally says it’s for states to use when they need it https://t.co/lzWx7H6RMQ— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) April 2, 2020
Kushner says: "The president wanted us to make sure we're thinking outside the box."— Timothy Aeppel (@TimAeppel) April 2, 2020
Because, you know, people with real expertise have no fucking clue.
This will not end well for Jared. His past efforts have resulted in contempt for him. This one, with lives at stake, here in the US, will result in him becoming one of the most reviled public figures in modern memory in this country.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) April 3, 2020
Oddly, it's not Jared I'm worried about.
Every one of these press conferences is a rebuke to every person who thought that it would be awesome to have a complete amateur in charge of a superpower.— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 2, 2020
There; that's the problem.
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