"Republicans have openly admitted that their efforts to impeach President Joe Biden — which will begin in earnest this week as House members return to DC from summer break — are in bad faith. They don’t just want to tarnish Biden. They want to tarnish the impeachment process itself.
"As the GOP has become increasingly authoritarian and anti-democracy, Republicans have become increasingly committed to undermining and mocking forms of democratic accountability. A nakedly partisan and clownish impeachment is useful because it signals to voters that all impeachments are clown shows, and all impeachments are partisan. That exculpates former President Donald Trump and delegitimizes resistance to him should he win the presidency again..." -- Noah Berlatsky, in "Public Notice" on Substack, describing the flailing, transparent attempts by the MAGAt Republican House of Representatives and its neutered Squeaker of the House Kevin McCarthy to smear the President and the levers of accountability in our political system. Beyond that, the most apparent motivations for taking this step -- McCarthy's need to fold to the worst extremists in th MAGAt coup caucus to preserve his tenuous grip on the Speakership, and as a distraction from their cult leader's two impeachments and four indictments -- speak to their ongoing rejection of democratic norms and their bad faith. As Politico is reporting, the House Republicans have been discussing this corrupt gambit with the Malignant Loser, who would like nothing better than to be able to dilute the historic nature of his own impeachments as well as distract from his upcoming trials.
If it weren't for bad faith, this bunch of domestic terrorists would have no faith at all.
