Cliff’s Note:
We’ve watched Republicans treat the Capitol like a private club. Now Democrats are arriving with luggage, briefing books, and the radical idea govt must work for people.
Behind the paywall: the job these Democrats actually must do, why they aren’t saints, and the new course of study the GOP was just assigned.
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—Cliff
In the United States under Trump, there are few spectacles more gratifying these days than the sight of MAGA lawmakers—including GOP Speaker Mike Johnson— discovering the country has grown tired of them.
The spectacle has now been made even sweeter with the Democratic victors arriving in Washington, D.C. smiling, energetic, and possessed with the notion that government might actually be conducted in the public interest.
This was the pleasing scene on Capitol Hill as the newly elected Democratic senators and representatives arrived for their orientation meetings. They came carrying their luggage, their hopes, their briefing books, and perhaps a modest supply of aspirin for the headaches that accompany the discovery of how Washington works. The new arrivals looked cheerful, purposeful, positively delighted to be there.
What a wonderful sight.
After years of watching the Republican Party turn Congress into a combination of sleazy traveling circus, Ayn Rand debating society, and badly managed lunatic asylum, the appearance of these new Democrats was like opening the curtains in a room that has been occupied too long by unwashed meth addicts.
You could practically hear the furniture sigh with relief.
