What happens when the inmates take over the asylum?
Expect Republicans to be as incompetent at autocracy as they are at democracy. Then what?
In the classic anti-war film The King of Hearts, the inmates literally take over the asylum. And much frivolity ensues. Indeed, in the happy universe of the film, the lesson is that the lunatics are more sane than the rest of us. But we never get to see how they might run a town council meeting or operate a sanitation department. We see the lunatics take over their town, but we don’t see them govern. Perhaps that would not have been so hilarious a movie.
Today in America we face a real threat — some would say a new certainty — that the lunatics have now been given permission to take over the asylum. We don’t seem to be able to stop them, despite having numeric control of both Houses of Congress and the Presidency. Indeed, as I write this, Democratic Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema has just announced on the Senate floor that she will not support changing the filibuster rules to pass the voting rights bills that represent the last stand of democracy. Republicans are rejoicing. This pretty much ensures the success of their anti-democracy power grab.
Expect American democracy to be mortally wounded in the 2022 midterm and put…
