A lot of this stuff from the likes of MTG in Congress just plays into Trump fans' notion that the way to get around what they perceive as the uselessness (or undue burden) of federal government is to convert the Congress into a creature without agency, same as what Trump was about trying to do with cabinet departments of the executive branch.
The more MTG-style antics get put up with and paid attention to by the media, social media and global consumers of information, the more the US Congress can be made to seem like a wacko circus that's basically optional.
By time the whole right side of Congress is stocked up with facsimiles of Boebert and MTG , "Gym" Jordan, Cawthorn, Gaetz, etc., we'll also be looking at anarchy as the basic structure of local government because these guys model "Rules, what rules?, the rules are what we say they are today and we can back it up 'cause we're packin' heat."
I mean when you get county sheriffs --who are elected, not appointed-- getting away with deciding which laws "are constitutionally enforceable", this country is in deep trouble. So... we're there already, just a lot of people haven't noticed yet. Look up "Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA)" sometime. Supposedly they only have 400 sheriffs among their number. But they were founded by a member of Oath Keepers, and there are non-sheriffs who bump the membership up to around 5k.
These far right jokers in Congress seem to focus solely on communication --propaganda, not policy-- instead of working on actual legislative goals as their purpose in Congress. What they intentionally communicate boils down to "Congress is a big joke, but a really great place to get free air time for re-election." And the godblasted media suck it right up and spit it back out. And in this celebrity culture the USA has been living in for so long, name recognition and incumbency plus gerrymandered congressional districts mean that even idiotic congressmen can skate to re-election.
These anti-government "representatives" in Congress are the legislative branch equivalent of Trump, authoritarian followers just like the constituents who put them into office, and they are just as dangerous as Trump because their behavior does support the rise of an unhindered President.
Oh they might fight over who gets to inherit the strongman's mantle seized by Trump, but they all do
[think they] want a strongman to run the place, to pick compliant people for the courts and heads of cabinet agencies (never mind at state level where they're trying to get Trump fans put in charge of electoral certification entities), and so eventually to get rid of the give-and-take among three branches of government that has meanwhile been the mainstay of American federal government under our Constitution.
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