politics

No they aren't. Nothing is happening. I'm exhausted watching day in and day out criminals going unpunished, regulatory groups being more and more corrupt and having every article read like "we finally got em!" Nothing is changing for the better. It's just political drama to keep people from burning this country down.

I want to see them suffer real consequences for their actions for the next several decades. I want them to genuflect in front of Americans and show actual remorse and work to repair all they've done.

We’ve all been paying the price for years. Do they ever learn? No.

This article has been published daily for the last 7 years.

At first I thought the author, Michael Cohen, was the Michael Cohen, which would have made for a very different article.

Imagine if an American publication the size of The Guardian had the guts to publish this article. There’s - gasp French! In there. Big words! Oh mercy, I do declare!

They wont. American corporate news is insufferably broken. All hail the conquering dollar.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

More than 11 years ago, before Donald Trump emerged from the primordial ooze of the far-right fever swamp, before the aborted January 6 insurrection and before the latest spasm of Republican extremism felled House speaker Kevin McCarthy, two renowned political scientists, Thomas Mann, and Norman Ornstein, put their finger on the essence of increasingly dysfunctional US politics: the Republican party.

Mann and Ornstein argued that the Grand Old Party (GOP) had become an “insurgent outlier” that was “ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition”.

Legislating is not seen as a tool for bettering the plight of the American people but rather an opportunity to troll Democrats and play to the perceived slights of the party’s rank-and-file supporters.

McCarthy, like countless Republican supplicants over the past eight years, realised that his political aspirations were directly tied to his willingness to support Trump and the extremist forces within the party that have rallied around him.

Another Republican apostate, former presidential candidate and current Utah senator Mitt Romney, who twice voted to convict Trump in his impeachment trials, recently announced that he wouldn’t run for re-election.

In a series of interviews with the Atlantic’s McKay Coppins, he recounted how, “in public”, his fellow Republican senators “played their parts as Trump loyalists, often contorting themselves rhetorically to defend the president’s most indefensible behaviour.

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The Guardian is still a good newspaper in their factual reporting, especially as they're still not paywalled, but their opinion pieces (comment is free) have been very click baity for years now.

It's always best to take them with a large pinch of salt.