The best news I have heard all this last week is that the national Wrong-Wing really doesn’t mean—well, anything it says. The public fear, rage, and hate are all just performances. Kayfabe, in pro wrestling jargon. Even boguser moral panics than we thought.
Now, even though they can’t pass anything through Congress, their debt limit shenanigans still will have actual consequences. And even more unfortunately, the Base and many in state government really do believe it all, and really do pass such laws. And SCOTUS believes an assortment of such hooey.
But either way, that’s just normal karma. Denying karma, pooh-poohing empathy, dumping on wokeness, that’s all part of the shtick. Unfortunately for them, denying that they are subject to the law of karma is the worst kind of karma, the kind that makes life an unending nightmare that you can’t wake up from.
Our authority on Congressional kayfabe is freshman Congressperson Jeff Jackson, whose take went viral last week on TikTok.