Sprekker i lojaliteten

Etter at valgmannskollegiet gjorde Bidens valgseier offisiell på mandag, nådde vi i går et annet viktig vendepunkt, ved at senatsleder Mitch McConnell erkjente nederlaget og gratulerte Biden med seieren.

Ross Douthat observerte et skille mellom to typer republikanere i New York Times i helgen:

“The Republicans behaving normally are the ones who have actual political and legal roles in the electoral process and its judicial aftermath, from secretaries of state and governors in states like Georgia and Arizona to Trump’s judicial appointees. The Republicans behaving radically are doing so in the knowledge — or at least the strong assumption — that their behavior is performative, an act of storytelling rather than lawmaking, a posture rather than a political act.”