But they’re hell at making them
Our friend Susie Madrak this morning observes, “Republicans historically don’t care about the issues they’re pounding and won’t do anything at all to address them if they win.”
Readers of this site know that already. But repetition is our friend.
Below we have the “everyday” president of the Heritage Foundation decrying “globalist elites” and celebrating the rise of the fringe right (even neo-fascism) in Sweden and Italy as conservatism. A friend from Stockholm described himself last week as pretty far left here in the U.S. But compared to the far right in Sweden, he’s a moderate.
As Susie mentioned above, and as Stuart Stevens mentions below, the GOP has no real governing agenda. The GOP is running on stoking fear and xenophobia. “US vs THEM,” as Kevin Roberts puts it bluntly and for once (credit where due) honestly.
Speaking of fear, one of the GOP’s principle spokesmen is pretty lousy at it. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy promises his party will make it safer for kids to buy heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine. I’d suspect early onset dementia except that it’s McCarthy, He just sucks at his job.
The GOP isn’t interested in solving problems, but in making them and in generating nonsense.
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