Bess Levin at Vanity Fair poders why “Republicans Can’t Believe Democrats Don’t Want to Work With Them Just Because of the Guns and the Death Threats and the Crackpot Conspiracy Theories.” The party of running government like a business finds it acceptable to harbor in its ranks people any sane HR manager would fire. Indeed, many among the Trump Insurrection mob of Jan. 6 returned home to find they had lost their private-sector jobs. Tacit congressional supporters of the insurrection hold onto their federal gigs.
Omar Wasow, Princeton Assistant Professor of Politics, considers that phenomenon in a tweet thread that also looks at how to counter extremism:
But viral stardom and crackpot theories are too easy to snicker at until a mob is breaking down the doors of your state or national capitol and calling for your hanging.
David Neiwert (Crooks and Liars, “Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump“) has a longer, more sobering thread on just how dangerous crackpots can be.
Dyer is now serving 30 years for raping his 6-year-old daughter.
The FBI is still trying to capture the suspect who planted pipe bombs at the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the night before the Trump Insurrection.
Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy is asking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to intervene and force Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to apologize for tweeting that Sen. Ted Cruz “almost had me murdered” during the Capitol riot.
Perhaps Democrats in Congress don’t want to work with Republicans because they’d rather not have to check under their chairs for bombs every morning. I tell ya, uppity lefties are so unreasonable.