Extremely Online Republicans Are Provoking a US Government Shutdown

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https://www.wired.com/story/us-government-shutdown-right-wing-bubble/

No paywall
https://archive.ph/qUHm9

WASHINGTON’S BIGGEST PROBLEM these days isn’t partisanship. It’s that far-right lawmakers are living in their own reality.

Extremist Republicans have broken off from the rest of their party to create an alternate universe in which they’re in charge, empowered by Donald Trump’s followers. This disconnect is fueling an internal GOP fight in the US House of Representatives that has the federal government careening toward a shutdown at midnight on Sunday, October 1. As he claws and scrapes in an attempt to negotiate federal spending legislation, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy seems to be realizing that his rank-and-file Republicans now occupy a different universe than everyone else.

“This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down,” an exasperated McCarthy told the congressional press corps last week. “That doesn’t work.”

McCarthy’s far-right foes say their bomb-throwing ways are working. They’re being rewarded in kind. With the fifth slimmest majority in history, McCarthy can afford to lose only four GOP votes. If he reaches across the aisle, his speakership will likely be challenged. While his Republican agitators don’t have any replacement waiting in the wings, the speaker hasn’t dared negotiate with Democrats.

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[RKP5637]

1. Exactly what they are: "... individuals that just want to burn the whole place down ..." n/t

[underpants]

2. Empty Greene got her start on QAnon

Never forget that.

The article does mention QANON but for its effort to primary Riggleman in Virginia. I thought he got primaried mostly because he performed a wedding for one of his staff.