Orwellian inversion of the century: Republicans' use of the word "compromise"

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. Or Bolsheviks of the estreme right. In service to their "revolution

of the haves", Republicans hve been subverting small-d democratic majority rule for many years.

Claiming to represent "the people", who rejected them overwhelmingly at the ballot box, a tiny minority insists that the majority cede all power to them. The Senate now has two sets of rules: a majority is 51 votes, but only when those 51 are Repoublicans, When Democrats have the Speakersip, a majority requires 60 votes And this has been going on for so long that the media no longer consider it news.

IMO the current Republican strategy is "gangster government", more like terrorisn or a coup d'etat than a political maneuver.

The fringes of the Republican party literally are willing to commit politically-inspired premeditated murder of obstetricians. "When they came for the obstetricians, I said nothing, because I was not a doctor...."