Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Red Caesar and 'poisoning the blood of our country'

David Rothkopf/Daily Beast:

A Broken Congress Is What MAGA Always Wanted

If they couldn’t shut down the government, they proved they could cripple the House of Representatives as a consolation prize.

There have been MAGA true believers shitting on the floor of the Congress ever since Jan. 6, 2021. But the right wing’s active desecration of the U.S. government extends far beyond ugly recent events on Capitol Hill, and dates back long before the Trumpist insurrection of two and a half years ago.

In fact, the origins of the attacks on the government date back at least four decades to the Reagan administration, when the former president popularized the idea within his party that government was actually the enemy. His joke that the scariest words one could hear were, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help,” has metastasized from being a pitch for smaller government into a movement to blow the whole damn thing up.