Not for the reason that some people might think, the Democrat National Convention ( DNC ) of this week provides a defining moment in contemporary American politics.
Democrats have created much mad to complete a swimming pool ten days in a day. The list of left-wing extremists coming out of the protocol is getting more by the second, from offering complimentary pregnancies and vasectomies to attendees and boasting about using lawfare to target their social opponents.
And what, you may request, are Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans doing this week to counter-message this lunacy?
Almost nothing.
While Democrats espouse their radicalism to the country, Republicans could n’t even be bothered to stay in Washington, D. C. Most representatives are currently back in their districts as part of Congress’s annual” August recess” and wo n’t return to town until Sept. 9.
If Johnson and the GOP leadership really cared about using their lot to make a opposing perspective from that produced by Democrats, they would put their lot to good usage. This means taking the summer off to hold regular congressional hearings to explain the severity of the border invasion and make a case for the American people against withholding government funding until the Biden-Harris administration fixes the crisis.
But Republicans are n’t doing any of that.
When they are rushing to the nearest Fox News cameras to express how dangerous the modern left has become when they are n’t tweeting performative indignation about what Democrats are saying at the DNC.
” Vote Democrat to keep America”! says the House GOP, which has funded a myriad of Democrat interests since winning the lot nearly two years before.
The brutal truth is that Johnson and the majority of Republicans are silent about their citizens or the nation’s Democrat-made problems, and they fear no consequences for supporting Progressives ‘ extremism. And they do n’t have much reason to.
Most Republican electors do n’t bother showing up for the GOP primaries despite their obfuscated dissatisfaction with Congress. In many cases, Donald Trump’s campaign encourages coalitions of the same divisions who claim to approve of their legislative leaders by re-electing those same people.
But, where does this leave us?
Republicans have no incentive to support Democrats on the issues that matter when they matter if they know that their citizens are unlikely to chastise them for their problems. Likewise, Democrats have no opportunity to lower their positions on any given area. They are aware that Republicans are not a genuine political party and will consent to any significant policy debate that arises.
Democrats are aware that Republicans lack the courage to overturn tyrannical guidelines that were put in place during their time in power and that voters will support them when the political pendulum swings backwards in their favour. They also enjoy the added benefit of a federal bureaucracy that is overly politicized, which encourages leftist creates even when a Democrat is n’t in office.
What we’re seeing at the DNC this week is an empty acknowledgement of this model. Liberals are aware that insipid Republicans will have no long-term effects on the populace’s perceptions of their worldviews if they expose the most problematic aspects of it. Their willingness to take the long view has led to a more aversion for America from the legal framework that the Founders established into an extremely unremarkable dystopia.
There’s only one political force playing to win in America, and it sure as heck is n’t the Republican Party.
The Federalist team author Shawn Fleetwood graduated from the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a condition content writer for Agreement of States Action and his work has been featured in various stores, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Following him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
