SIMPLY PUT, NOT UP TO THE TASK: Hornaday gets it stunningly right!

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

RBG bobbleheads and us: At roughly 7 o'clock this morning, we were so sunk in overload that we thought we'd write today about Lord Bertrand Russell.

Our despair concerned our own tribe's overwhelming foolishness. It's been so widespread in the past few days that we hardly knew where to start.

Lord Russell enters the picture as a symbol of the ubiquity of our species' intellectual incompetence. Also, you can enjoy the laughter of the gods when you recall the way the great man tortured himself over the imagined logical complications of "the set of all sets not members of themselves."

Lord Russell was then, and is today, considered an intellectual giant. That said, his comical contortions about this particular "set of all sets" made absolutely zero sense, except as a source of entertainment for those who dwell on Olympus.

That said, his contortions are still taken seriously by the people hired to play the role of logicians. The gods roar on Olympus, then look away. Every once in a while, the rest of us should go ahead and enjoy  a good laugh too.

We were going to start that way, perhaps with a mention of Professor Goldstein's book about Godel  Wittgenstein. But then, a bit like Keats before us, we came upon Ann Hornaday's essay in the Washington Post. 

We're not sure we've ever read a more perceptive political essay in any major newspaper. Needless to say, it came from the Post's main film reviewer.

We know Hornaday a tiny tad, as we've noted in the past. Back in 2007 and 2008, we would encounter her adorable daughter, then maybe seven years old, on quite a few weekday mornings in an unnamed coffee joint. 

Those meetings made us recall Mr. Peterson, who had two jokes, and never failed to tell them, back in the early to mid 1950s, when we ourselves were maybe 6. But we can leave such things for another day, thanks to Hornaday's essay, which is perhaps the most perceptive political essay ever unloosed in the Post.

Hornaday in the Washington Post's chief movie reviewer. Did you really think that political insight would come from the paper's political writers?

Hornaday smuggles her political insight into her essay under cover of movie critique. In print editions, headline included, her essay starts like this:

Your RBG bobblehead is shaking in dismay

There’s no denying that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a rock star. Maybe that was the problem.

Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow! Already, Hornaday is dropping down on her target.

What could Hornaday possibly mean by those opening thrusts? The late Justice Ginsburg had been a bobblehead-honored  "rock star?" Where was "the problem" in that?

As she continues, Hornaday cites Justice Ginsburg's "brilliant advocacy for women’s rights," along with her "intellectual prowess, soft-spoken civility and physical tenacity." In this way, Hornaday is speaking about the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg the actual person, not the "pop-culture icon."

That said, our utterly hapless cultural tribe did make her such an icon. Covering herself with a mention of films, Hornaday joins Ruth Marcus in citing a fateful decision by Ginsburg—a fateful decision the commissars have told us we mustn't discuss:

HORNADAY (9/22/20): Ginsburg’s status as a pop-culture icon was solidified in 2018 with the release of two feature films celebrating her life and career. “On the Basis of Sex,” starring Felicity Jones, was a dutiful if somewhat drearily conventional biopic. But it was the documentary “RBG” that became a surprise hit that year, an intimate, adoring portrayal that morphed into a cinematic pilgrimage for mothers, daughters and granddaughters who turned out in droves to cheer on their heroine as she pumped iron and pummeled her conservative colleagues with her scorching dissents.

“RBG,” which replayed on CNN this weekend, only briefly addresses Ginsburg’s controversial decision not to retire during President Barack Obama’s tenure, which probably would have ensured that her seat would be filled by someone with similarly liberal views. Like so many others, she made certain assumptions, including that Hillary Clinton would win in 2016. And really, who could be immune to the poetic justice of Ginsburg’s replacement being named by the first female president? The optics were irresistible.

Then, when things didn’t go as planned, optics were all that some of us had. The Notorious RBG, a cancer survivor whose fragility belied a formidable will, became a meme of the Trump-era resistance, her star status cemented by a Kate McKinnon parody on “Saturday Night Live,” coffee mugs and collectible bobbleheads.

Dear God, no! Like Marcus in Sunday's Washington Post, Hornaday mentioned Ginsburg's fateful decision—the fateful decision the commissar has said we mustn't cite.

As Hornaday took this forbidden route, her imagery heightened:

In Hornaday's rendering, "The Notorious RBG" became a meme of our (hapless) political tribe. Ginsburg was honored with her own bobblehead doll as she became a symbol of the resistance.

You may recall the resistance! It got its start in the first few days after Trump was elected. In an act which bordered on self-parody, it staged its initial fruitless  march the day after Trump took office.

As such, the resistance sketched itself as a symbol of our tribe's inability to see what's happening until it's too late. (If at all.) At this point, Hornaday offers the most insightful political analysis ever put into print by the Post:

HORNADAY: Over the weekend, her fans mourned her passing by gathering with candles and songs at the Supreme Court; presumably, others donned their “dissent collar” T-shirts or lit RBG prayer candles in memoriam. Meanwhile, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) were already getting to work. McConnell and his Republican colleagues had prevented Obama from nominating a replacement for the late Antonin Scalia in February 2016, insisting that the seat remain vacant until after the election. Days before she died, Ginsburg had shared her “most fervent wish . . . that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” But it’s unlikely that such niceties will be observed by a party and administration that has made the shredding of once-settled norms and sacred traditions just another day at the office.

Thus concludes another real-time lesson that liberals just can’t seem to learn: that while they’ve been congratulating themselves watching movies that co-sign their most closely held assumptions, elevate their most cherished shibboleths and flatter their most self-righteous vanity, the right wing has been systematically institutionalizing its agenda by way of an incrementalism strategy aimed at capturing governorships, statehouses and the courts, and radically reshaping the entire national legal infrastructure.

In that passage, Hornaday mocks our liberal teammates. In Hornaday's rendering, they confront the world with candles and songs, but also with "dissent collar T-shirts," whatever the heck they may be.

They confront the world with prayer candles. Also, with bobblehead dolls of impressive people who they've turned into pop-culture icons.

They tend to show up a day too late, "elevating their most cherished shibboleths and flattering their most self-righteous vanity." And as our team has behaved this way down through the many long years, realpolitik players like Trump and McConnell (and quite a few others) have been systematically institutionalizing  all aspects of pseudo-conservative power.

Hornaday goes on from there, but her stunningly accurate point has been made. In an increasingly polarized nation, the other tribe will have the Supreme Court. We're going to have our prayers and songs, and our bobblehead dolls.

Hornaday's essay appears on the front page of Style. Indeed, no one would ever write with such insight in the Post's political pages. 

Dearest darlings, use your heads!  It simply isn't done!

What is being done today across our upper-end world? Inevitably, the cult of pop-culture personality is being advanced in the New York Times as people crowd forward to broadcast useless tales of their personal friendship  with Ginsburg.

Eric Motley offers this op-ed essay about his "unlikely friendship with" Ginsburg. On the facing page, F. Murray Abraham offers this self-promoting letter about the time "Ruth Bader Ginsburg and I shared a gondola in Venice."

So amazingly cool! That said, our tribe will never be free of our attachment to such behavior on the part of Tinseltown types. Often, the clueless conduct of these halfwits has damaged liberal interests.

We liberals! As Hornaday notes, we  have our bobblehead dolls, our candles and songs, and our dissent collar T-shirts. The other team will soon have a 6-3 edge in the Supreme Court and, in a visiously ironical turn of events, a chance to end Roe v. Wade thanks to a gamble lost.

There's no reason why Justice Ginsburg had to retire while Obama was president. The fact that she didn't decide to retire doesn't make her some sort of bad person.

That said, the likely outcome of her gamble is now all too clear. And, of course, the commissar quickly moved to tell us that we shouldn't discuss it.

To be clear, Hornaday isn't speaking, in the main, about the late Justice Ginsburg. She is speaking, in the main, about the cluelessness of everyone else in our bobblehead-afflicted, personality-driven political tribe.

Our tribe is driven by bobbleheads and by politics as a form of identity formation. As we promote "our most closely held assumptions, elevate our most cherished shibboleths and flatter our most self-righteous vanity," how dumb are we able to be?

This dumb! Our leaders keep  saying that McConnell has already lost two votes—those of Collins and Murkowski—out of the three votes he can afford to lose. 

In truth, neither Collins nor Murkowski has said that she will vote against the commander's forthcoming nominee. We've been through this okey-doke with Collins about a million times by now, but our journalists just keep saying these things 1) possibly because we're really that dumb, or possibly 2) to make us readers and viewers feel good.

(Given the political leanings of Maine, the embattled Collins could imaginably get permission to dissent this time.)

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. At the same time, it's clear that our flailing tribe just isn't up to this task.

Hornaday's essay moves directly to the heart of the problem. It could only have come from a movie reviewer. Simply put, our "political analysts" aren't up to so crucial a task.

Tomorrow: The commissar's edict

46 comments:

  1. "the fateful decision the commissar has said we mustn't cite."

    Who is the commissar?

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  2. "Thus concludes another real-time lesson that liberals just can’t seem to learn: that while they’ve been congratulating themselves watching movies that co-sign their most closely held assumptions, elevate their most cherished shibboleths and flatter their most self-righteous vanity, the right wing has been systematically institutionalizing its agenda by way of an incrementalism strategy aimed at capturing governorships, statehouses and the courts, and radically reshaping the entire national legal infrastructure."

    Of course Somerby loves this essay. He might have written it himself. Look at the way liberals are scolded!

    As if liberals haven't been trying to win local and state elections too. As if we spent all of our time at the movies instead of getting out the vote.

    You cannot conclude from the results of elections that we haven't been trying.

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    1. Trying ain't enough. Success is all that counts.

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    2. See what mh wrote at 1:19 below.

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  3. It can't be said enough. The only people who aren't to blame for Trump's election are Trump voters and the Republican party for their vote suppression tactics.

    Meanwhile, let me tell you about these lazy Liberals...

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  4. "We liberals! As Hornaday notes, we have our bobblehead dolls, our candles and songs, and our dissent collar T-shirts. The other team will soon have a 6-3 edge in the Supreme Court and, in a visiously ironical turn of events, a chance to end Roe v. Wade thanks to a gamble lost."

    There are bobblehead dolls of Trump too. There is all kinds of merchandise available at his rallies. Are we to believe that Republicans do not make rock stars out of their candidates? That they do not fetishize icons on the right? Somerby is being ridiculous.

    Supreme Court justices are appoint for life, not until political convenience dictates that they resign. This idea that Ginsburg should have stepped aside is wrong, insulting to Ginsburg (who was serving actively and well and lived for another 4 years after Obama's term ended).

    The Supreme Court is not supposed to be partisan and politicized, much less polarized, in the same way as congress and voters are. Justices frequently do not give rulings that support the political agendas of those who appointed them. That is true at lower levels too, not just on the Supreme Court. I remember the "Impeach Earl Warren" billboards the right put up, after their conservative justice turned out to be not the puppet of the right that they expected. There is similar outrage now about Roberts. That's because the court serves the law, not politics.

    I am ashamed of Somerby, that he not only doesn't understand this fact, but that he thinks the reason Ginsburg died too soon is because they made a bobblehead doll in her image.

    Blaming Ginsburg for "gambling" instead of resigning is about as awful as it gets. Who is clamoring for any other justice to resign so that a younger successor can be appointed? Is Clarence Thomas being hounded?

    I do believe that it will be revealed in some expose that Justice Kennedy was blackmailed into resigning, but that is corrupt, not clever. It is wrong for Trump (and his supporters) to have done that. Suggesting that liberals should sink to the same corrupt level by pressuring justices to leave their positions so that the court can be better manipulated for political purposes is corrupt. We are not that kind of banana republic yet, and I am shocked that Somerby would suggest such a thing, much less blame liberals for not attempting it!

    Has Somerby entirely lost his moral compass? It seems so.

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    1. "Supreme Court justices are appoint for life, not until political convenience dictates that they resign."

      Wrong and dumb. Kennedy resigned in 2018 and his seat is now filled by Kavanagh. He could have pulled an RBG and stayed in office until the next election and risk his seat being filled by a president of the opposite party too. But he didn't. He cared about reality. RBG could have resigned at the age of 81 in 2014 and her seat would now be filled with a young liberal women. It was a blunder of monumental proportions.

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    2. There has been talk that Kennedy resigned under duress because they had something on his son that they agreed not to prosecute in exchange for allowing Trump to replace him on the court.

      There is no precedent for Supreme Court justices resigning for political expediency instead of health reasons. Name any other justice who did this (besides Kennedy, who was manipulated by Trump).

      You may think it is clever to call staying in office "pulling an RBG" but it is just offensive.

      You also seem to think you know what Kennedy was thinking and feeling. You do not have access to that info. For all we know, he is sad because he was forced to resign and ashamed of what he did, with a bit of resentment toward his son who made it necessary to do so.

      I realize that men don't find RBG particularly appealing or important on the court, but women sure do. I wouldn't want her to cut her career short by 6 years because we need her to fight for our interests. Calling for her strategic resignation implies that she was expendable for those 6 years, or that another woman would be just as good (woman are all interchangeable, right guys), something that is far from true and insulting to suggest.

      It would be like asking Obama to resign in the 6th year of his presidency so that his VP could take over and have a leg up during the next election, so he could then serve his own 8 years. Good idea? Why didn't Obama do that and step aside to give Biden an advantage? He pulled an RBG by finishing up his 8 year term, right?

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    3. Yeah, saying that an 81 year-old cancer patient should have retired in 2014 is just like saying "another woman would be just as good" and just "like asking Obama to resign in the 6th year of his presidency."

      Only in Anon 5:48 moron-land.

      "For all we know, he is sad because he was forced to resign and ashamed of what he did" Nice mind reading. He was 81 years old FFS! People that old retire all the fucking time you stupid moron!

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    4. She is the person who should determine when she needs to retire, and she did exactly that. If she was so sick in 2014, why didn't she die then? Obviously, she was well enough to continue her work, which was important to a lot of us, if not to you.

      Yes, lets get rid of all those fucking old timers who are taking up space in jobs that should be done by younger people!!

      I suppose you are aware that some people retire at 50 because they have earned enough money and do not need to work to support themselves. Does that mean RBG should have retired at 50 too?

      If you cannot conduct a discussion with anyone without calling names like moron, you should visit the kind of blog where that is OK, maybe over at 4chan. If you can't find an argument, name-calling doesn't make you sound any smarter.

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    5. Teenagers can get cancer too, even children. Does that mean they are all shut out of meaningful careers? Lots of women get breast cancer and men get prostate cancer starting in their 40s. Should they all retire? Doesn't it depend on their treatment and prognosis? Isn't that between a person and their doctor, not the public? Cancer doesn't mean you are no longer fit for any employment. It is a chronic illness, no longer fatal because of medical advances. You are using it as an excuse to move an inconvenient old woman out of a job you covet. That's nasty.

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    6. You're really very good at what you do. Passive-aggressive bullshit is an artform. Have you ever thought of starting your own blog?

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    7. You seem so fond of your own thinking that you assume you are right and get upset when people disagree, calling people names instead of addressing their argument. Kind of what a 12 year old does.

      Once again, you use the psychological term passive-aggressive, but incorrectly. Such terms have actual meanings and are not just insults you can hurl at people indiscriminately, without some relevance to what people have said or done.

      For example, there is nothing passive at all about my comments to you. Passive aggressive is when you agree to loan a friend money but then forget to mail the check. It doesn't apply to this situation, except perhaps to your comment, where you pretend to offer a compliment while calling my remarks bullshit. But you know what they say about projection (another psych term, by the way).

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    8. A person who makes blatantly moronic statements, as you frequently do, absolute deserves to be called a moron. It would be wrong to not call a person who continues to make moronic statements a moron. All you have to do is stop making moronic statements and you won't be called a moron. It's just that simple!

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    9. Kudos Glaucon X.
      Your shtick showing how moronic Right-wing talking points are, is hilarious. This one, telling people when they should and shouldn't retire, while fancying yourself a protector of individual freedoms, is really one of your best.
      Keep up the good work. There are still people who don't think modern conservativism is a mental disease.

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    10. Don't make more moronic statements. Point out a right-wing talking point that I have made.

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    11. Glaucon X's act, mimicking the idiocy of Right-wingers, is very well done. Watching it go over the head of some of the commenters on TDH, is what makes it even better.

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  5. "We've been through this okey-doke with Collins about a million times by now, but our journalists just keep saying these things 1) possibly because we're really that dumb, or possibly 2) to make us readers and viewers feel good."

    What is different this time is that Collins is in the process of losing her senate seat because of her actions in the Kavanaugh confirmation. She may hope that opposing Trump's nominee may save her with the voters.

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    1. I assume it's for the same reason the media treats the words of Newt Gingrich like there is a reason to report them.
      THIS might be the time he finally makes a good faith argument, and they don't want to lose that scoop to a competitor.

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  6. "...the fateful decision..."

    Yeah, right: "fateful". That's another thing about your liberal cult, dear Bob: worshiping not only glorified liberal idiots, but also useless political institutions.

    One useless judge dies, another one will be installed, life will go on as usual. No ordinary humyn being will feel any difference.

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    1. That being the case, no one will mourn your death either.

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    2. The Sun will rise, and Mao will still be a dembot zombie with projection issues.

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  7. Hornaday reviews two movies about a woman whose entire career was devoted to pursuing justice for women, in the face of intransigent opposition. If Ginsburg had ever let the odds deter her, she would not have accomplished as much and there would be no movies about her life.

    Would Somerby ever discuss the life of MLK with the same disrespect as he and Hornaday dismiss Ginsburg? The left shouldn't have made a bobblehead of her, Somerby bleats. Women shouldn't have cared so much about how she helped them become full citizens of this country. She hurt the Democrats, Somerby claims, echoing Hornaday. Never mind what she did for women. Never mind that she is as much a figure of inspiration and admiration as MLK, to the 50% of the people who have been shamefully treated by history.

    Somerby is blind to why Ginsburg is adulated, why women care about her. That is consistent with his persistent failure to understand gender issues. If women cannot make a bobblehead of (e.g., admire and respect) Ginsburg without betraying their party, how much does Somerby care about any of the cases Ginsburg not only pursued but won? Somerby needs to actually watch those movies, not simply read antagonistic reviews of them, intended to reduce Ginsburg's stature.

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    1. I get where Bob's coming from.

      People who like the Ginsburg bobblehead dolls, love those who champion women.
      And people who like statues of Confederates, love those who champion bigotry.

      Great analogy, Bob.

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  8. "...the fateful decision..."

    Yeah, right: "fateful". That's another thing about your liberal cult, dear Bob: worshiping not only glorified liberal idiots, but also useless political institutions.

    One useless judge dies, another one will be installed, life will go on as usual. No ordinary humyn being will feel any difference.

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    1. Иди на хуй, тролль.

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  9. Why does Somerby keep saying that liberals are "not up to the task" when we elected and reelected Obama and it took Republican cheating and collusion with Russia to steal the election in 2016? Now Trump is losing all over the country and he thinks that if he puts another justice on the Supreme Court, the court will give him the election when he cannot gather enough votes to win.

    Perhaps Somerby is saying that we are insufficiently corrupt on the left to compete with the criminals on the right? But, I think he would be saying things differently if that were what he meant. He is daily telling the same kind of lies as Trump tells, pretending that liberals cannot win while the polls say otherwise. Just like a conservative.

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    1. Would on earth would ever believe polls again? The polls said otherwise in 2016, numbnuts.

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    2. Actually the polls were as close to being correct in 2016 as any other time. Additionally, 2018 polls were also fairly accurate; indeed Dems performed better than the polls suggested, as it was a historic election for them.

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  10. "Our tribe is driven by ... politics as a form of identity formation"

    Amen. It's totally out of control.

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    1. "Our tribe", like "the white working class" IS 'identity formation", no matter how much the people who pretend they hate "identity formation" deny it.

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    2. Republicans have been using white identity politics for decades, when Dems use identity politics suddenly Republicans start crying "not fair".

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    3. Meh. Their cult is not "driven" by identity formation.

      Their identity politics, their hate mongering is a mere means of splitting working people into warring segments.

      What the liberal cult is driven by, is being a loyal servant of global capital; hedge funds (the Soros fund being the prime example) and other globalist structures.

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  11. Hornaday:
    “the right wing has been systematically institutionalizing its agenda by way of an incrementalism strategy aimed at capturing governorships

    Somerby:
    “They[liberals] tend to show up a day too late,”

    Hornaday’s analysis is a bit off.

    In 2018, Republicans lost the governorships in 6 states, Democrats picked up 7.

    The Democrats achieved 6 new Trifectas (control of governorship, upper and lower house of state legislature); the Republicans lost 4.

    The Democrats won back the US House.

    You can’t do these things by “showing up a day too late.”

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  12. Somerby likes to blame liberal laziness or smugness or identity politics for Democratic losses.

    I tend to agree with Steve M at No More Mister Nice Blog.

    It is the rift in the left between the Destroy-the-Democratic-Party Sanders types and Democratic Party stalwarts that is far more damaging.

    He points out the circular firing squad nature of the left here:

    https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2020/09/heres-why-were-in-this-mess.html

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    1. Sanders types I would argue do not want to destroy the party, that is more the opportunist types like Dore, Krystal Ball, and Greenwald. Most of those in the progressive movement say exactly what the blog suggests about Republicans. It is the neoliberal Dems that want to play nice with Republicans.

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  13. The GOP is not immune to intra-party squabbling. They've been throwing the term RINO around for decades. And this year they have defections that we are not seeing among the Dems.

    https://www.mediaite.com/tv/even-the-rinos-dont-want-me-to-succeed-trump-goes-off-on-political-opponents-to-woodward-in-new-audio/
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jeff-flake-former-gop-congress-biden

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  14. McConnell and his Republican colleagues had prevented Obama from nominating a replacement for the late Antonin Scalia in February 2016,

    Sloppy writing by Hornaday. Obama DID nominate a replacement for Scalia.

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    1. Yes, they prevented Obama from replacing Scalia, as was both his right and his duty as president.

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    2. The Republican Party replacing RGB on the Supreme Court seals their fate.
      They're too stupid to not do it.

      Their cries about unfairness will be the cherry on the sundae.

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