by kleinbl00

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it: if you believed – really, truly believed – that the opposing party was a satanic cult of pedophiles and puppet-masters who are actively working to destroy America by renouncing God and castrating your children for sick sexual pleasure – wouldn’t you do everything you could to win?

Would you consider, even for an instant, compromising with something that demonic?

The Freedom Caucus has no interest in governing. No interest in politics or compromise: not with McCarthy, not with the party, certainly not with the Democrats. They want to restore their twisted version of an imaginary America. They want to crush evil.

They want war.

I don't entirely agree with Jedeed on this. The jihadis can be as hate-hearted as they want, ultimately they have to earn re-election every two years. MTG was re-elected in a walk but Boebert was down to the wire; unless the Republicans have managed to gerrymander the country not just in conservative favor but also vitriolic, reactionary favor they will eventually outrun their supply lines.

But I do think that the Democrats have slipped from being the near enemy to the far enemy to the cosmic enemy. The Republicans are too busy fighting themselves to really have the focus for national politics for at least a cycle.