jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago"This don't feel like a victory, bro": MAGA melts down at GOP speaker for averting shutdownwww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1249arrow-down19
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minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down8·1 year agoSo Republicans failed to listen to their base and worked with the other party to do things the base didn’t want? Huh. That’s what that looks like from the outside.
minus-squaredjsoren19@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agowith the small caveat that the thing their base doesn’t want is keeping the government functional.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·1 year agoAnd the other small caveat that this is the first time in ages their base has had to deal with a party that ignores them and wants support anyway. Which is just the way things are for the Democrats’ base.
So Republicans failed to listen to their base and worked with the other party to do things the base didn’t want?
Huh. That’s what that looks like from the outside.
with the small caveat that the thing their base doesn’t want is keeping the government functional.
And the other small caveat that this is the first time in ages their base has had to deal with a party that ignores them and wants support anyway. Which is just the way things are for the Democrats’ base.