Missing The Point

There may in fact be some Republicans who still want to govern - who want to make the thing work. And there's more than a fair probability that some of these clowns are indeed just interested in the clicks and the fund-raising opportunities, and the chance to keep a very lucrative gig.

But there are plenty - the MAGA gang, and the "quietly complicit moderate institutionalists" - who want dysfunction as a means to an end.

They've been telling us for 50 years:

• "to err is human, but if you really wanna screw things up, call the government"
• "government is the problem"
• "less government is better government and the best government is no government"

They're telling us they want to shit-can our little experiment in democratic self-government and start over with a shiny new coin-operated corporate-style plutocracy.

More dysfunction = more cynicism and dissatisfaction = higher likelihood that people will support a major shift to authoritarian rule.

I could be wrong, but could we at least acknowledge the possibility, and then have the balls to ask a few fucking questions about it?