The Wrecking-Ball Caucus: How the Far Right Brought Washington to Its Knees

[BidenPresident]

With a disruptive government shutdown just days away, Washington is in the grip of an ultraconservative minority that sees the federal government as a threat to the republic, a dangerous monolith to be broken apart with little regard for the consequences. They have styled themselves as a wrecking crew aimed at the nation’s institutions on a variety of fronts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/us/republicans-congress-freedom-caucus.html

 

[Stone]

With a disruptive government shutdown just days away, Washington is in the grip of an ultraconservative minority that sees the federal government as a threat to the republic, a dangerous monolith to be broken apart with little regard for the consequences. They have styled themselves as a wrecking crew aimed at the nation’s institutions on a variety of fronts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/us/republicans-congress-freedom-caucus.html

 

[SmarterthanYou]

the founders tried very hard to craft a document that prevented a consolidation of federal power. Democrats and Republicans ignored it.