There's No Bottle We Can Put This Back Into. Kevin McCarthy Sold It for Votes.
House Republicans are venturing into dangerous new territory.
By Charles P. Pierce
Dec 1, 2021
One of the most significant works of history over the last five years was Joanne Freeman’s The Field of Blood, her study of how actual violence became a regular part of the legislative process at all levels of government in the decades immediately before the Civil War. Freeman describes one episode in the Arkansas legislature in which a representative insulted the Speaker of the Arkansas House and the speaker came down and stabbed him to death. Acquitted at trial, the once-speaker got re-elected and pulled his knife again during a heated debate. This time, however, the sound of his colleagues’ cocking their pistols deterred him from ventilating his opponent.
In this sense, the crisis of the Union was a crisis of communication. Northerners were waging war against the South with dangerous words; Southerners were trying to stifle those words with force, and the cross-fire was cutting off conversation, particularly in Congress, an institution grounded on open debate and free speech.
There is no single issue like slavery in our politics to prompt this kind of violence. Rather, there was a misbegotten, criminal presidency that brought to the surface all the monsters from the political id that the Republican Party nurtured over the pervious 40 years. And, frankly, there’s no bottle left into which we can stuff this dark djinn.
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yes the last few decades the repubs have acted kind of perviously.
