Nailing the problem

Enthralling op-ed in the Washington Post:


Republicans don’t want someone to fix the system. They want someone to break it.


Pithy, on-the-mark quotes:

"The GOP’s increasing preference for callow, reckless candidates represents a culmination of the anti-government, anti-politics, anti-intellectual direction of the conservative movement."

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"The country still needs to pass budgets, raise the debt ceiling, staff agencies with competent bureaucrats and the federal bench with competent jurists, and to cooperate with other countries on everything from trade and immigration to nuclear non-proliferation. Republican voters are threatening these foundations of American prosperity and security, not as a byproduct of moral conviction but as a statement of inchoate resentment."

ff the one good thing in this is that the nuttiest candidates are leading the Republican Presidential primary race, which makes the whole party look like a bunch of nutters.  Not all of them are, of course,  But its the far-right, take-no-prisoners nutters who are messing with the structural integrity of this democracy.