Of course Nadler did that because he is a _______ (fill in your derogatory term of choice). Yet I only wish, a Republican, any Republican, had the spine to wield power as do the Democrats.
“Yet I only wish, a Republican, any Republican, had the spine to wield power as do the Democrats.”
While 2020 was certainly a pivotal moment in the decline of the Republic, I suggest October 29, 2015 may have been the tipping point and minimally was a huge missed opportunity and failure of leadership. That is when Paul Ryan replaced John Boehner as Speaker of the House. While the conservative Freedom Caucus Republicans had made life so uncomfortable for establishment Speaker Boehner that he resigned, they didn’t have the vote to put a conservative leader in the position. The establishment wanted Kevin McCarthy the conservatives did not. Ryan was drafted as the compromise choice.
Ryan ended up being as establishment as McCarthy and spent first term of Donald Trump’s presidency undermining Trump instead of teaming with Trump and Mitch McConnell to push a conservative agenda through Congress. Even worse, during the 2018 mid-term election, he encouraged incumbent GOP Congressmen to retire and was absent from the campaign. He essentially worked to make it easier for the Democrats to take control of the House, which they did.
Imagine if the GOP had installed a conservative with the backbone to stand up to Pelosi and the political skills to push legislation through Congress. Unfortunately the victors write the history and it appears the history of this time will be written by far left professors who will proclaim Pelosi a great politician and speaker while casting Ryan as an evil Republican conservative. They will not tell the story of his treachery which helped enable the coming to power of the leftist coup during the 2018-2020 period.