Opinion: The beginning of the end of Trumpism - "The fact that only seven Senate Republicans bolted should end the absurd talk that there is a burden on President Biden to achieve a bipartisan nirvana in Washington. If most Republicans can’t even admit that what Trump did is worthy of impeachment, how can anyone imagine that they would be willing and trustworthy governing partners?
"The case for ending the filibuster is now overwhelming. There are not 10 Republican Senate votes to be had on anything that really matters.
"All the Republicans who broke with Trump deserve honor and respect. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see how this varied group could either form the core of an alternative kind of Republicanism or be consistent governing partners with Biden."
Opinion: The massive GOP betrayal of our democracy requires a forceful Democratic response - "Now that the vast majority of Senate Republicans voted to acquit former president Donald Trump of inciting violent insurrection, as we all knew they would, Democrats should immediately respond as follows:
"1. Pass H.R.1 and S.1 with all deliberate speed.
"2. Be prepared to nuke the legislative filibuster if and when Republicans obstruct it in the Senate.
"3. Get the package into law as quickly as possible.
"Those are the House and Senate bills that would expand voting rights, make voting easier in numerous ways and place limits on counter-majoritarian tactics such as voter suppression and gerrymandering, which Republicans are cheerfully escalating in numerous states."
Opinion: Will Senate Republicans allow their louts to rule the party? - "The first of this century’s national traumas is denoted by two numbers: 9/11. One purpose of, and a sufficient justification for, the second impeachment of the 45th president was to inscribe this century’s second trauma in the nation’s memory as: 1/6." [ed. note: George Will]
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Opinion: This is how bad McConnell really is - "We witnessed a historic confession of hypocrisy and deceit on Saturday when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) went to the floor after voting to acquit Donald Trump in the former president’s Senate impeachment trial. McConnell said, 'Former President Trump’s actions [that] preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty.' He added, 'Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day.'
"But McConnell said he couldn’t vote to convict because the trial had come too late, after Trump was out office — even though it was McConnell himself who had kept the Senate out for the remainder of Trump’s term.
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"The next time someone criticizes the Biden administration for a lack of bipartisanship, remember this episode of McConnell’s monstrous hyperpartisanship. The White House will be dealing with a minority leader and a party so lacking in honor, and so willing to disregard the country’s interests, that no reasonable person could expect their genuine cooperation or compromise. McConnell has shown his true colors."
After Ginsburg Dems Must Choose Radicalism or Failure - "The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the rare kind of event that must be radicalizing.
"There’s no shortage of injustice, real or hypothetical, that has the potential to radicalize people. Ginsburg’s death, which comes just long enough before the election for Republicans to replace her with a reactionary right-wing jurist, requires a radical response if the causes of democracy, equality, and freedom are to have a fighting chance.
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"There will not be bipartisan cover to save democracy because the Republican Party doesn’t believe in it. There is no more sense in spending months exhorting Republicans to help create political equality in America than there would have been in replacing the civil rights movement with a sandwich board that said 'pretty please.'"
Opinion: Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. - "The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition." [ed. note: from 2012!!]
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