Political sabotours aren’t in the building back anything business. Thus, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) explained to supporters how the Republican congressional caucus expects to spend its time and the taxpayers’ dollars over the next year and a half:
“For the next 18 months, our job is to do everything we can to slow all of that down to get to December of 2022, and then get in here and lead,” Rep. Chip Roy said in a video taped by Democratic activist Lauren Windsor. “Nobody knows what anybody’s gonna do right now. That’s the thing, this is the problem. I actually say, ‘Thank the Lord, 18 more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done.’ That’s what we want.”
Until then, Republicans in Congress will neither lead, follow, nor get out of the way. And by get in there and lead, Roy means tear things down, not deliver things Americans want.
In a video secretly recorded by Lauren Windsor of The Undercurrent, Roy criticized fellow Republicans in the Senate for working with the Biden administration on an infrastructure plan:
Roy also chided the $579 billion infrastructure agreement, saying the moderate Republicans who negotiated it weren’t “conservative warriors.” Months of talks eventually produced an agreement on a framework last month. Biden initially tied its passage to the success of a Democrat-only bill, but he backed down on his veto threat after sparking criticism from Senate Republicans.
Republicans are de-Americanizing political opponents the way nations dehumanize enemy soldiers in war to justify killing them. Only in this case, Republicans are de-Americanizing opponents to justify disenfranchising them. So far. MAGA rioters chanting “Hang Mike Pence” on Jan. 6 perhaps had more than disenfranchisement in mind.
Windsor’s camera caught House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) speaking to a crowd of supporters assembled by Rick Santorum’s Patriot Voices.
“We hear an awful lot about the Democratic Party moving to the left, practicing socialism, Marxism, Leninism, Communism, whatever,” one attendee asked Biggs. How does he see them from up close?
“My own opinion is that they are enemies of the state,” Biggs replied.
“There are a handful of moderates left,” Biggs added, but by and large Democrats are “very, very hard left.” As examples, Biggs cited Democratic committee chairs Jerry Nadler (N.Y.), Maxine Waters (Calif.), and Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.).
Whoa! Move over “The Squad,” laughed MSNBC’s Joy Reid. Here comes The Triad.
So, while Biggs was praising Democratic moderates such as Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (W. Va.), Roy was deriding his party’s moderates for not being “conservative warriors.”
Republicans “have become completely reactionary,” The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes told Reid Wednesday evening.
By its actions and rhetoric, the Party of Trump is at war with the 51% of America (81 million voters) who chose last November to replace Donald Trump in the White House with Joe Biden. On Jan. 6, thousands of Trump supporters attacked the seat of government and police defending it from them and their attempt to overturn the election.
You, Dear Readers, are enemies of the state. Trump and his Republican acolytes are priming their base to act on that. Their base already has. With deadly results.
