In their book It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics...
In their book It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein wrote that “the Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier— ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”
I'm sure there's a word for it somewhere, but there is an idea that people can think beyond their own self interests and consider the greater good. The modern #GOP doesn't seem to want to care about anything that doesn't reflect their own interests, including science, debate or even something as simple as respect for the game they're playing.
Originally shared by Betsy McCall
Not allowing oversight is evidence they know what they are doing is wrong.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/06/the_white_house_s_latest_attack_on_democracy_is_unprecedented.html
I'm sure there's a word for it somewhere, but there is an idea that people can think beyond their own self interests and consider the greater good. The modern #GOP doesn't seem to want to care about anything that doesn't reflect their own interests, including science, debate or even something as simple as respect for the game they're playing.
Originally shared by Betsy McCall
Not allowing oversight is evidence they know what they are doing is wrong.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/06/the_white_house_s_latest_attack_on_democracy_is_unprecedented.html
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