Performative Politics is Weak Sauce for Disaster Relief
Whatever else can be said about MAGA Republicans, they do love a good show.
Author: Philip H
Philip H is an oceanographer who makes his way in the world trying to use more autonomy to sample and thus understand the world's ocean. He's a proud federal scientist, husband, father, woodworker and modelrailroader. The son of a historian and public-school teacher and the nephew and grandson of preachers, he believes one of his greatest marks on the world will be the words he leaves behind. To that end he writes here at OT and blogs very occasionally at District of Columbia Dispatches.
Philip's views are definitely his own, and in no way reflect the official or unofficial position of any agency he works for now or has worked for in his career. If you disagree, take it up with him, not Congress.
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The GOP Is No Longer The Party of Individual Freedom or Liberty
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What do we do with a Drunken Market (that’s doing what it should – just not for you or me?)
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How do we know that Ron DeSantis is now a leading light in Republican national politics? Simple…
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