09.30.13 | 7:02 am
The Sociology of Ruin and Collapse
TPM Reader JB picks up the thread on cracked parties and decapitated leaderships …
About your post this evening…it goes back just a couple of years, to the last government shutdown crisis in 2011, and I don’t think that’s far enough to understand what’s happened to the Republican Party, or at least to the GOP in Congress.
Remember that up to the beginning of 2007 the Republicans had not only the White House but majorities in both houses of Congress. They’d held them for some time. They had the power to set the agenda for the country, for several years, and then they lost it.
