Sunday, September 10, 2017

The Only Problem in American Politics Is the Republicans


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Let's get this straight.  The problem is not "partisanship". It's not economic anxiety of the white working class. It is the deeply embedded racism and ignorance of most white voters in the U.S.  They have produced a party that is hostile to government, and undemocratic.  The problem is the GOP.  there is no equivalence among Democrats. - gwc

The Only Problem in American Politics Is the Republicans

by Jonathan Chait

"whatever the very real flaws in the American political and electoral system, it is simply impossible to design any kind of a system that can withstand a stress test like a major party captured by a faction as radical as the conservative movement. Its absence of limiting principles to its ideology, indifference to empirical evidence, and inability to concede failings of its dogma lead to an endless succession of failures explained away to the base as faintheartedness.

The doom loop Drutman describes is, in reality, both sides responding to the phenomenon of Republican extremism. Republicans are sealed off in a bubble of paranoia and rage, and Democrats are sealed off from that bubble. Democrats fear Republican government because it is dangerous and extreme. Republicans fear Democratic government because they are dangerous and extreme."

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