No, current House Republicans are not ‘worse’ than Strom Thurmond

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Since Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) blew up Kevin McCarthy‘s House speakership last autumn, congressional Republicans have indeed been in disarray, unable or unwilling to unify their razor-thin control of the House to pass anything capable of winning a vote in the Senate. Appropriate adjectives to describe them would include “messy” or “incompetent.”

What they are indeed not is literally “worse” than the child rapists, Ku Klux Klan sympathizers, and unapologetic racists that President Joe Biden still brags about befriending when he joined — checks notes — a full 51 years ago.

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