Someone tell me how Dems are supposed to be bipartisan when the whole GOP is INTENTIONALLY partisan?
The McConnell political strategy:
- Have entire Republican caucus refuse to work w/Dems (and punish any Republican who does), obstruct, sabotage, and block anything the Democratic President (first with Obama, now with Biden) and their congressional allies want to do, up to and including NORMAL FUNCTIONING OF THE GOVERNMENT
- Stoke frustrations and disgust with the broader public while keeping Republican voters and donors engaged and energized
- Tell the media that it’s the Democrats who are refusing to be “bipartisan” and encourage that narrative across the political media
- Create a crisis of governance or even a national/global economic crisis knowing full well that many/most swing voters will blame the President’s party
- Win control of at least one house of Congress in the midterms
- Continue to sabotage the Democratic President, but with more options to do so on account of having control of one or both houses of Congress
- Use the Democratic President’s failures (real or perceived) in the face of Republican obstruction as a political weapon in the next presidential election, hoping that they will have successfully made that Dem POTUS a one-termer (Mitch McConnell explicitly said this was their single most important goal in Obama’s first term)
- If the Democratic President is re-elected, just double down on the existing strategy, and break as many important norms for as long as it takes to get full control of all three branches of the federal government
How are Democrats supposed to negotiate with THAT?!
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from Gingrich onward has regressed more and more. First it was the GOPAC Zombies, the Bushies, The Tea Party, and now we have Trumpistas. I'm afraid to ask what's next.
