The G.O.P. abandoned a bipartisan border security bill that also aided Ukraine after Democrats called their bluff on immigration, agreeing to tough measures Republicans demanded.
But Democrats tripped them up by offering substantial — almost unheard-of — concessions on immigration policy without insisting on much in return. Now it is Republicans who are rapidly abandoning a compromise that gave them much of what they wanted, leaving aid to Ukraine in deep jeopardy, border policy in turmoil and Congress again flailing as multiple crises at home and abroad go without attention because of a legislative stalemate.
Wait, dems don’t ask for anything when conceding to right-wing bullshit? Wait, repubs don’t actually want the things they say they want? Repubs don’t actually want to govern?
Call me surprised.
Your democracy isn’t going to vanish because you’ve got some overly-strict border controls for a while.
Ukraine can vanish if Russia is able to conquer it. Millions of people can die in gulags, of starvation, or have their children taken away and “reedcuated.” It’s literally happened to Ukraine before. Russia is explicitly trying to do that to it again right now.
So excuse me for my priorities.
It’s not the border policy that would end the US. It’d be Democrats failing to make the evil murderers of the Republican party look like the evil murderers they are. When the US cannot tell who the baddies are, it is EVERYONE’S problem.
The Republicans have an actual plan, laid out in writing, to take over the government. They WILL try. We need an America capable of handling that, not one myred in Democrat’s capitulations to Republicans.