"They slipped in a little clause letting them escape ever having to debate or vote on Trump's tariffs," said one Democratic critic. "Isn't that clever?"
The GOP playbook for decades has been to try to dismantle government to the point that they can point at its corpse and say “see? We were right. Government doesn’t work.”
As this is still the goal, it makes perfect sense that they want to give more power to the Dismantler in Chief.
What has never factored into the equation is the absolute suffering it will bring to the American people – largely against their will. The GOP has never gotten this far before, and I carry the teensiest, tiniest bit of optimism that it is too far for most Americans and the bottom may finally fall out of this approach – meaning Republicans in government will finally have to give in and eventually learn to govern, if they’re even given another chance at all.
But it is only a teensy, tiny bit of optimism, and it requires that very basic things like voting in the US still actually exist.
The GOP playbook for decades has been to try to dismantle government to the point that they can point at its corpse and say “see? We were right. Government doesn’t work.”
As this is still the goal, it makes perfect sense that they want to give more power to the Dismantler in Chief.
What has never factored into the equation is the absolute suffering it will bring to the American people – largely against their will. The GOP has never gotten this far before, and I carry the teensiest, tiniest bit of optimism that it is too far for most Americans and the bottom may finally fall out of this approach – meaning Republicans in government will finally have to give in and eventually learn to govern, if they’re even given another chance at all.
But it is only a teensy, tiny bit of optimism, and it requires that very basic things like voting in the US still actually exist.