Jamaal Bowman and Matt Gaetz Are Alarmingly Similar – WSJ

So we end up with a measure that keeps the government running for merely another 45 days, prolonging the sense of gathering fiscal crisis at a time when interest rates are rising rapidly to levels last seen almost 20 years ago and in the meantime achieving just about nothing that serious conservatives want.

To complete the cycle of idiocy, the same Republicans who refuse to coalesce around a pragmatic conservative platform will try to oust Mr. McCarthy, because he betrayed them by leading passage of a measure more popular with Democrats than Republicans.

The larger point is that this kind of emotionally satisfying posturing characterizes much of Republican politics today. It is mirrored in the process unfolding in the presidential primary. Republicans could unite behind a leader who is committed to doing things they believe in and things that can actually be achieved in a nation that is as sharply divided as Congress is. Or they could pick someone who makes the right noises, makes them feel good about themselves, and sees allies as opponents and opponents as traitors. In the process, just as they delivered a heavily Democrat-favored bill last weekend, they risk delivering us another four years of Joe Biden, this time aided and abetted by Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.

Break glass in case of emergency, the signs read. No need. The alarms are ringing already.

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Gerard Baker. But maybe things will turn out alright. You never know.