The Washington Post has today’s least surprising headline:
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This is so appalling. It doesn’t even matter what the reason is. Maybe it’s mass delusion. Maybe it’s cowardice. Maybe it’s just the usual cynical con designed to keep the conservative base outraged. Whatever the reason, the result is ever more senseless destruction of a political system that, for all its faults, is still fundamentally sound if all sides act even remotely reasonably. But for how much longer?
UPDATE: Now we’re up to 27!