Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

The Party Of Grievance

Jon Chait examines GOP climate realists who prioritize "pwning the libs" over, you know, saving the planet.

The GOP used to call themselves "the party of idea" and while most of the Reagan Era ideas were horrible, they at least were worthy of being called ideas. What the GOP is now is essentially a loosely aggregated bunch of angry white people who are defined not by what they want but who they hate. If you accept the climate science, there is literally no earthly reason why you would not want to act on it.

The GOP must be broken in its current form.  It's toxic to the ability to govern this country.

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