Turning to the chaos muppets for a minute.
Rep. Jim Jordan in the House chamber after the House of Representatives failed to elevate him to speaker of the House for the third time on Friday.This week saw MAGA Republicans engage in extremist arm wrestling in the House speaker race and the sins of the 2020 election subversion scheme begin to catch up with Donald Trump’s closest allies.
I’m going to confess to you that a law professor friend sent me an email that chilled me to the bone this week, suggesting that if Jim Jordan won the speakership, he would simply never certify a Biden election win.But I wonder if you could just help me understand what it means to have a nonfunctioning House of Representatives at this moment.
united and pulled off a stunning upset of the illiberal nationalist and ever more authoritarian leaning Law and Justice partyWhy is that important? Because history teaches that the way to defeat authoritarian movements is to form a very broad pro-democracy coalition of people who typically disagree about policy and politics. This is why I talked about how our strategy at Protect Democracy is build a broad coalition of pro-democracy progressives, moderates, and conservatives.
Let’s go back to the interwar period in Europe. During that time, there were far right, extremist, authoritarian movements rising across the continent. In some countries, Belgium and Finland in particular, the mainstream center right parties saw those extremists for what they were, as threats to the system, and they held their noses and formed a united coalition with their traditional opponents on the left to block those extremists from power.
If they continue to do that, I think we can expect similarly tragic results. But what we may be witnessing in the House this week is the first potential signs that they might choose the Belgian, Finnish, and Polish path, or at least enough of them. Now, I’m not naive enough to be super optimistic about that just yet, because the Republican Party of late has not given me enough confidence to be super optimistic about that.
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