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Weird to think what could have been if they’d done the right thing after Jan 6th. At this point, they’d be, at most, two election cycles away from a full recovery.

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And that’s part of why we can’t achieve any long term goals, such as taking action on climate: we are on a pendulum swinging between election cycles, with a two-year world view.

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And a fan fiction, minute-by-minute perspective that's even shorter.

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Yeah but that would be an eternity for the political survivors, and the ones who get drummed out would be dead in the party.

That's one thing that really gets me about the mindset- it's so very by the minute and greater consequences be damned.

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