[This post was prepared May 24 and then I forgot about it. It’s not particularly time-sensitive, so here it is.]
Steve Benen provides a useful summary of the embarrassing nature of the Tennessee legislature, although it’s not complete, as he didn’t even mention the Speaker of the Tennessee House is under investigation for not living in the district he represents, as Tennessee law requires.
As I read it, what struck me about it is that American voters have a long history of not tolerating corruption, and in Tennessee we’re seeing it on a personal level: apparent sexual assault, gerrymandering, which is another issue Benen didn’t cover, outright lying in order to be elected, expulsion of members calling Republicans to account, refusing to at least consider the will of the voters, and no doubt some things I’ve forgotten.
And what’ll come up next week?
But my point is that the Republican Party, which is rapidly entering the corruption phase predicted by their toxic team culture, the denigration of experience and expertise, the arrogant religious component, and the RINO attack plan, all issues well-covered by critics, will continue to degrade itself until the American public, disgusted by their behaviors, boots the Republicans’ pack of fourth-raters out of power and into the nearest polluted river.
You can get the popcorn, but I fear the salt will be unpalatably bitter.
