Member-only story
The New House Majority Isn’t Even Pretending Any More to Serve Anyone But the Economic Royalists
After two years of historic accomplishments while Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the White House, it would have been nice to be optimistic and not succumb to all the gloomy prognostications concerning the current republican majority.
It would have been refreshing to hear the republican party repudiate Donald Trump and commit to delivering what matters most to the American working class.
It would have been encouraging to see republicans acknowledging how the extreme Q-Anon, MAGA base had temporarily hijacked it, and vow to return to sane, rational policies instead of conspiracy theories and personal grievance.
As the old obscure Pink Floyd song goes, “it would be so nice.”
Here’s to hoping, right?
Sadly, though, the reality is just as we suspected.
After finally securing a Speaker — following the longest round of voting since 1856 — the House republican majority wasted no time committing itself to doubling down on a neo-fascist agenda that would make Vladimir Putin, Hungarian president Viktor Orbán, former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, and former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro proud.
