It's The Daddy State

...but (so far) without the usual efficiencies that go along with such evil-doing.

Charlie Pierce:

So, as two frenzied days begin here, we see that the substantial Republican majorities in both Houses of the Congress have completely abdicated their constitutional functions simply because the Republican Party can’t get out of its own way, and because the president* is a grandiose simpleton who could be talked into cutting off his own head. Both McConnell, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from Wisconsin, theoretically could get pretty much anything they want passed. But Ryan has the Freedom Caucus leading him around by the nose, and McConnell is pretending that the White House has to move first, which turns the constitutional order on its head.

What the GOP is doing is not governance - they hate government, remember? What they're doing is called extortion.

They believe if they cause us enough pain and anxiety, we'll knuckle under and go along with whatever Daddy State bullshit they feel like dictating to us - because of course, it's for our own good.

Nobody deserves to feel like they're being forced to live their lives at the broken end of a bottle.

GOP:

The assholes who make my mom cry almost every day because she's scared of the shit they threaten to do.

hat tip = driftglass & Blue Gal