• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It’s not even Republican presidents. Newt Gingrich destroyed the House. Mitch McConnell destroyed the Senate. And there’s a whole bench of people willing to continue their work.

    The entirety of the Republican party, from their philosophy to their platform to their elected officials to the individual voters, is a poison. And they have a lot more power than Democrats thanks to their low population density.

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      4 months ago

      McTurtle is one of the last dinosaurs where he was in office and doing the dirt.

      Ever since Nixon though they realized it’s better to have a fall guy in office and stay behind the scenes.

      There’s new generations of them, most people will just never know their names now.