I’m burned out from working to get the new issue of the Washington Monthly ready to go online for Monday morning. So, I’m taking a bit of a mental health day, today. Something to think about, though, is how fascism is a kind of anti-politics. And, when the Republicans decided to greet the new President Obama with a strategy of total obstruction, they basically walked away from politics.
I think this can be retroactively judged as the true gestation period for Trumpism. I know we can all identity other warning signs and slow-developing trends. But the last piece in the puzzle was making a decision to completely delegitimize the give-and-take of legislating. Once you go down that road, you delegitimize yourself as a lawmaker, or a body of lawmakers.
Anti-politics is what you get.