This is what you get when you elect Republicans – Washington Post
This has been quite a week in Washington, a week full of terror, intrigue, suspense, backstabbing and outright chaos. While we might not have been able to predict the particular contours of the catastrophe that complete GOP rule has been, we should have known it would turn out something like this.
Guess what, America: This is what you get when you elect Republicans.
It goes much further than their repugnant and disastrous effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but all the contemporary GOPs pathologies could be seen there: their outright malice toward ordinary people, their indifference to the suffering of their fellow citizens, their blazing incompetence, their contempt for democratic norms, their shameless hypocrisy, their gleeful ignorance about policy, their utter dishonesty and bad faith, their pure cynicism, and their complete inability to perform anything that resembles governing. It was the perfect Republican spectacle.
Its remarkable to consider that there was a time not too long ago when the Grand Old Party was known for being serious, sober, a little boring, but above all, responsible. They were conservative in the traditional sense: wanting to conserve what they thought was good and fearful of rapid change. You might not have agreed with them, but there were limits to the damage they could do. The devolution from that Republican Party to the one we see today took a couple of decades and had many sources, but its fullest expression was reached with the lifting up of Donald J. Trump to the presidency, this contemptible buffoon who may have been literally the single worst prominent American they could have chosen to be their standard-bearer. I mean that seriously. Can you think of a single person who might have run for president who is more ignorant, more impulsive, more vindictive and more generally dangerous than Donald Trump? And yet they rallied around him with near-unanimity, a worried shake of the head to his endless stream of atrocious statements and actions the strongest dissent most of them could muster.
With their repeal effort dead for now, Republicans still need to make some difficult health insurance decisions. The Post's Paige W. Cunningham explains what comes next. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
So now we see the results of putting this party and this president in charge. Lets take a little tour around the news and see whats going on, shall we?
I could go on and delve into the presidents plan to blow up the Iran nuclear deal, or the climate-denial initiative at the Environmental Protection Agency, or all the fossil-fuel lobbyists now staffing the Interior Department, or any of a hundred abominable policies and programs. But the point is, were getting just what we should have expected. Donald Trump isnt an aberration, hes the apotheosis of contemporary Republicanism.
Senate Republicans attempted to pass a "skinny repeal" bill that would undo some portions of the Affordable Care Act on July 28, but the bill failed after three GOP senators voted against it. (The Washington Post)
Republicans dont care about making an honest case for their priorities; Trump lies nearly every time he opens his mouth. Theyre unconcerned about the details of policy; he knows less about how government works than your average sixth-grader. Theyre indifferent to human suffering; he literally advocates destroying the individual health-care market so he can blame Barack Obama for the lives that wind up ruined. They advocate a mindless anti-government philosophy; he has so much contempt for governing that he puts his son-in-law in charge of everything from solving the opioid crisis to achieving Middle East peace. They whine endlessly about the liberal media; he spends hours every day watching Fox & Friends and takes advice from Sean Hannity. Trump is the essence of the GOP, distilled down to its depraved and odious core.
America was given a reprieve last night, saved from the Republicans cruelest plans by a Democratic Party that stood strong, thousands of activists and ordinary citizens who organized in opposition and the GOPs own incompetence. But this what you get when you give todays Republican Party complete control of the government. Have no doubt: There are more horrors to come.
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This is what you get when you elect Republicans - Washington Post
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- Assembly Republicans announce scattered package of education bills and task forces - Wisconsin Examiner - September 11th, 2025 [September 11th, 2025]
- Charlie Kirks killing created a powder keg. Why are Republicans waving matches around? - San Francisco Chronicle - September 11th, 2025 [September 11th, 2025]
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