Excellent piece by Robert Reich. The news coverage of Kevin McCarthy's hopes of becoming Speaker of the House is a tempest in a teapot.
The real issue is what the GOP has become and its illegitimacy as a so-called political party.
The GOP has lurched so far to the right that I do not understand why working-class people vote Republican. If you're a millionaire/billionaire and you hold democracy in contempt, then I get it. But if you work for a living? What are they doing for you? Do you dislike brown people so much that you prefer paying thousands of dollars in medical bills—facing possible bankruptcy, which 700,000 Americans do every year? In Germany, France, Canada, Japan, and Switzerland that number is zero. Z-E-R-O.
You must be very dedicated to your anger at (brown) people entering the country via the southern border and your bizarre rage at Nancy Pelosi. The GOP does not have you in mind. They hold the working class in contempt. If you do not own a private jet, you are not on the radar (sorry).
To work for a living and vote Republican is to exist at the receiving end of a joke.
And hasn't the battle cry of conservatives always been "I want the government out of my life!" So, why is it okay for the government to lord over women's bodies and women's health? Seems to be a violation of core principles. But, as Rep. Mary E. Miller (R) declared after SCOTUS's overturning of Roe v. Wade , the decision was a "victory for white life." This is how far the GOP has sunk.
