I mean when half your party is lunatics and the other half is people who can’t stand up to lunatics or they’ll get primaried by a lunatic, there’s bound to be tension
"Why Republicans are on the Verge of Fistfights" Part of the reason? The Republicans are "'a divided party,' Freeman said, with no real leadership and no way to bring discipline or accountability to members." www.politico.com/news/magazin...
A historian who studies political violence and the runup to the Civil War explains why congressmen are getting ready to brawl.
I honestly think the country has a problem identifying lunatics.
"With the election of Trump, the republican party was thrown in to a civil war where the trump opposition had already lost and we just get to live through them realizing it over the course of the decade." said on twitter in feb 2022
It sounds like the mental health issues they have would disqualify them from possessing firearms.
They’re a party with no long term viability but with plenty of short term fuckery with long lasting effects available.
GOP sowing a lunatic base: Haha fuck yeah!! Yes! GOP reaping the consequences: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
And/or given death threats by lunatics
When the job means more than your principles or whatever. That’s it in a nutshell. Or, you tell yourself that if you fall to a primary challenger then someone really scary might get in.
Haven't heard much from my Congressman, Jim Banks. He got his start by trying to tread the line between fiscal conservative and lunatic. He needed the bucks from local plutocrats so he had to appear sort of sane. But, he wanted to get his ugly mug on Fox News leaning toward the lunatic side.
Gerrymandering encourages the election of extremists.
In 1999, I went to Kenya/Tanzania on my honeymoon for photographic safari. We were told by our guide that when lions and hyenas fight, the lions try to kill the matriarch of the hyena pack, because the hyenas will devolve to infighting the second the queen is gone. Today's House GOP are the hyenas.