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9. Chaos in the House! And What We Expect from American Democracy in 2023

Is This Democracy

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Is Mitch McConnell a Cynical Opportunist?

The Republican electorate and most of the Republican congressmen were already very very conservative before Trump was running for president. I think we're making it too easy for some of these people by just focusing on the opportunism that does not mean there is no opportunism because clearly there is a good measure of opportunism involved. Anyone who has any ambition to become anything in today's Republican party is always incentivized to come out with ever more radical things to say about the left, he says.

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