Republicans have relinquished their responsibility to check the unprecedented excesses of the current president as he engages with the forces of tyranny.
These people won’t be remembered at all. They’re chaff in the wind. Nobody outside of some bespoke politics nerds will bemoan Paul Ryan or Bill Frist or Tip O’Neal or Mike Mansfield for their successes or failures of the political moment.
In another forty years we’ll remember Trump in the same way we remember James Polk or Calvin Coolidge or Harry Truman, as an artifact of history that wins praise or scorn in cloistered corners of the ideological landscape based on the hagiographies written by modern shills and propagandists. But the middle-management Congress that facilitated/obstructed their rein? Barely a byline in the history books.
Name five Congressmen from the Bush Era.
Name five Congressmen from the Reagan Era.
Name five Congressmen from the Nixon Era.
These people won’t be remembered at all. They’re chaff in the wind. Nobody outside of some bespoke politics nerds will bemoan Paul Ryan or Bill Frist or Tip O’Neal or Mike Mansfield for their successes or failures of the political moment.
In another forty years we’ll remember Trump in the same way we remember James Polk or Calvin Coolidge or Harry Truman, as an artifact of history that wins praise or scorn in cloistered corners of the ideological landscape based on the hagiographies written by modern shills and propagandists. But the middle-management Congress that facilitated/obstructed their rein? Barely a byline in the history books.