Daniel Detlaf on Nostr: For the last couple decades the GOP have pinned their policy advances to a kind of ...

For the last couple decades the GOP have pinned their policy advances to a kind of civil terrorism. It goes like this: Give us the power to fix X, or we'll shut down the government and cause suffering for the entire nation.

Sometimes it works, because we all agree *something* should be done about X and most folks aren't policy wonks. Then they offer simplistic fixes no one serious can accept, fix nothing, and shift their focus to the next problem they want to manufacture fear with.

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