Full agreement

 

Nothing to argue with in this op-ed by E.J. Dionne Jr. in the Washington Post. 

Let's just say it: the Republican problem is metastasizing

"The episode speaks to how the trends Mann and Ornstein caught on to early have metastasized. Power in the GOP has moved away from elected officials and toward those right-wing “commentators” on television, radio, podcasts and online. The creation of ideological media bubbles enhances their power. Republicans in large numbers rely on partisan outlets that lied freely about what Lankford’s compromise did and didn’t do, rather than on straight news reports."

and 

"Then there is the denigration of science, dispassionate research and technical knowledge. In his book “The Death of Expertise,” writer Tom Nichols described this mournfully as a “campaign against established knowledge.”

Challenging experts is, of course, a democratic right and can be useful in calling out those who disguise their interests behind claims of special understanding. But Republicans have put this practice to naked political use in pushing back against action on climate, necessary regulation and public health advice."

I am acquainted with some of those people in Twitter (X) conversations about climate change, and they are both unswayable and disagreeable, and virtually always wrong.

Not a good time in America.