The Right’s Total Loss of Proportion
Updated at 8:55 a.m. ET on November 11, 2021.
You can tell a lot about a group of people by what makes them angry.
Consider the furious way many conservatives are reacting to the passage last week of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill backed by President Joe Biden—and then compare it with their reaction to the January 6 insurrection.
[Peter Wehner: Republicans own this insurrection]
After some House progressives refused to vote for the package, Speaker Nancy Pelosi relied on 13 Republicans to help eke the plan through. Suffice it to say that those 13 Republicans—mostly moderates or those representing swing districts—have not been hailed as exemplars of pragmatic policy making. Democrats have little incentive to praise their political opponents. Voters have, which is no less acceptable for the fact that it is utterly predictable.
