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Penalty, Dems. Unsportsmanlike conduct.
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This isn't as satirical as it was intended to be... Dems are actually a much more unified and cohesive entity in general, and "republican" is a ridiculously broad term at the moment that basically describes a bag of cats...
You need look no further than the chaotic impasse in the house to see this very clearly. The repubs can't even put up a viable candidate for speaker because their "party" has become a bunch of individual cliques. You got xenophobics, you got "the old school", you got people that want nothing at all except to poke liberals in the eye with a proverbial stick... they aren't really a group, they're several.
Post is ironically paying "the left" a compliment here IMHO.
Damned shame about the stupid ass "first pass/binary/ legacy/gerrymandered (partial list, too long to try and include everything)" system that's allowing all the various factions to pool their votes.
They may hate each other, but they hate everyone else even more, so most of the time they manage to work together as a single group just fine. The substance of their policy disputes amounts to little more than arguing over which out-group they want to focus on fucking over that day.
What's separating those GOP groups right now isn't ideology. They're all basically on the same page when it comes to fixing global warming (don't), fixing health care (don't), funding infrastructure (don't), killing schools (do), making sure "those people" know their place (do), funding the military industrial complex (do), and giving tax credits to rich people (do).
What separates them is how much they're willing to support a single person--Donald Trump--and how much they're willing to work in a bipartisan way. Some of them are willing to go to war with their own party over these.
I might be slow to follow politics. Is "killing schools" about defunding them, or about openly supplying children with guns to literally kill their occupants? Or, does it even matter...