From Business Insider - June 18th, 2021
By Eoin Higgins
The GOP is winning more battles than a minority party with an unpopular platform should.
But they aren't paying as high of a political price because Republican lawmakers around the country are hiding their unpopular agenda behind confusing technicalities and baffling legalese.
Republicans are using obfuscation tactics to lead Americans to believe that laws are in place when they actually aren't, that gridlock in Washington is an unshakable truth rather than a parliamentary strategy, and that voting in the country is far harder than it is.
Republicans pass laws they know will never stand up in court, because the message of its passage is likely to change behavior even if the law ultimately falls.
These officials pontificate self-importantly about the necessity of keeping parliamentary tradition and rules in place, and then turn around and break them whenever it's convenient.
The GOP deploys whatever means are necessary to bend and even outright break the political rules of engagement.
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Editor's Note: I seldom run opinion pieces by others, but this one was so outstanding I had to share.
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