Left In Lowell

Take the word of an actual GOP House member. Someone who is actually right up there in terms of big names in the Republican minority, Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas.

“Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban,” Sessions said. “And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person’s entire processes. And these Taliban — I’m not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that’s not what we’re saying. I’m saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with.”

Republicans lost the majority, were resoundingly rejected at the polls, and this is their strategy? Again, if it weren’t that we’re facing a crisis, I’d be hoping for more of this - nothing like comparing yourself to a hated enemy of the United States when trying to discuss your opposition. It explains so much…