Complicity? No. Glee. This is what the GOP base has been demanding, in steadily-less polite terms, for several political generations. And the hunger has only grown more ravenous as all efforts at even-handed reform or compromise have failed, been sabotaged, or rejected. People on the left and institutionalist sides have gotten used to assuming that the civil service and "norms" would handcuff any significant deviation from their goals, but assist them while they were in power. That assumption is in the process of being ripped up.
The absolute complicity of the GOP is the only thing that surprises me. We should be terrified
Complicity? No. Glee. This is what the GOP base has been demanding, in steadily-less polite terms, for several political generations. And the hunger has only grown more ravenous as all efforts at even-handed reform or compromise have failed, been sabotaged, or rejected. People on the left and institutionalist sides have gotten used to assuming that the civil service and "norms" would handcuff any significant deviation from their goals, but assist them while they were in power. That assumption is in the process of being ripped up.
Exactly this. The Left hasn't had a fire in its belly (unless it's a woke fire) for ages now.