Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Republicans created dysfunction. Now they’re paying for it (Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein, Brookings)

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during an event at the U.S. Capitol in Washington December 9, 2015. McConnell said on Tuesday he has told lawmakers to plan to work this weekend to wrap up legislation to fund the government and extend expiring tax provisions. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

“The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier—ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.” That passage, which framed a core part of the argument of our 2012 book, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, was vilified by conservative commentators, called a rant and a parody.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2016/03/08-republicans-created-dysfunction-now-paying-for-it-mann-ornstein

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