Yeah but this is different. The government is bleeding money floating the citizenry. Real estate lobbies are facing a massive fight to recoup outstanding back rent, which they already know they're not going to come close to breaking even on. Travel and event-driven industries are on the ropes. Hospitals are clogged and losing qualified staff, which is a massive pain for the people who run them. And churches have been hit very hard by an inability to collect tithes.BulletMagnet wrote:Considering that the majority of the SCOTUS was happily willing to roll over and die when Texas got minimally creative when it came to criminalizing nearly all abortions
In other words, whatever they say publicly, this hits Republicans and the donor & voter delivery classes in general where it actually hurts. And everyone is looking at this with the knowledge that it'll go on forever as long as concentrations of unvaccinated people can keep incubating new variants.
I don't think Mitch is all that emotionally or ideologically driven. I think he's just very cynically aware that he has more negotiation leverage if his default position is "NEVAR!!" And he can get away with it, since it plays well into their general tough-guys-standing-firmly-against-gay-communists branding.You say that as if Mitch and company could possibly be any more knee-jerk obstructionist than they already are. I'd seriously like to hear an argument as to what's left to lose when it comes to engagement with the reactionaries (or, as I've posited earlier, even the so-called "centrists") at this point.
When I wrote that sentence I was thinking about the regular folks who call in to radio shows still mad about the Clinton administration and think Scooter Libby was framed.