Republicans are basically best understood as malicious hackers trying to find exploits in a game called Government (beta version 0.96).
Look at how they're flooding the system with horrible bills attacking women and drag queens and minorities and transgenders, even though those bills do precisely nothing to make their constituents' lives better. They're forcing the Democrats to spend all their time fighting back against this tidal wave of hatemongering, so they will have less time to actually do normal government things. It's basically the governmental version of a Denial of Service attack.
They don't even care how successful any of these initiatives are. They just want to cause problems for what they see as the progressive agenda. Even if they know a judge will probably overrule it someday, they know it will waste a lot of time and traumatize a lot of people, thus forcing the other side into damage control mode.
Similarly, what do you think all their gerrymandering and vote suppression is? They're literally finding exploits in the code. They're like the trollish little shits who find exploits in games so they can cheat and kill other players in a grossly unsportsmanlike fashion. The big difference is that it's a lot harder to fix exploits in a constitution than a game.
Stealing a Supreme Court judge from Obama? That's an exploit. Stacking the judiciary with hand-picked politically motivated operatives and thus defeating its purpose as an independent branch of government? That's an exploit. Finding ways to force the entire nation to obey the edicts of one judge in an obscure court in Texas? Another exploit.
Twisting freedom of expression so that religious fanatics in key positions can essentially force their opinions on the rest of us in the name of their personal liberty? Yet another exploit. Using "parents' rights" to allow one small group of parents to dictate what every other parents' children are allowed to learn in school? Yet another goddamned exploit. Hell, that's what Jan 6 was: they thought they found the ultimate exploit.
That's what the GOP is: a cabal of the sort of unsportsmanlike scum that ruin online games, except that this game is the government.
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