Thus has the political center been hollowed out … Democrats barely have a majority in the House—but within that narrow majority, progressives have outsize power… The same dynamic holds on the Republican side. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has outraged even other Republicans with her divisive stands.
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How America’s Polarized Politics Produced Democrats’ Internal Fight
A proliferation of House members have no need to speak to the other party, or even to moderates and independents in the center.
Perhaps it’s the other way round. Maybe the ghost of presidents past is all that keeps them from turning on each other. Whatever the reason Washington resembles men in a canoe fighting for control as the whole hurtles toward Niagra Falls.