Why Are Democrats Unified and Republicans in Chaos?
As we head into Week 3 without a Speaker of the House, and no consensus choice in sight, our own Matthew Cooper picks through the wreckage of the House Republican Conference to assess how they poached the "disarray" title from the Democrats:
The glue of being pro-government may be the biggest reason Democrats are unified, and Republicans aren’t.
In the end, moderate Democrats can appeal to progressives to compromise to make government work, which is something both sides—and voters from both Democratic factions cave—crave.
Moderate/mainstream Republicans have a hard time making that argument work for them because far-right lawmakers and base Republican voters don’t care so much.
There's lots more insight and historical context from Cooper. Click here for the full story.
Also on the Washington Monthly website this week:
The Case for Hope in Israel and Gaza. Really.: Storer H. Rowley explores the possibility that "a Gazan Sadat or a new Israeli Rabin" will eventually emerge. Click here for the full story.
Why House Democrats Should Empower Temporary Speaker Patrick McHenry: My case for sidelining the far-right nihilists in the House GOP. Click here for the full story.
The October 17th edition of the Washington Monthly newsletter fact checks Donald Trump's recent tall tale about Benjamin Netanyahu. Click here for the full story.
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