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GOP House hard-liners won’t compromise. They’re losing key fights because of it. (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Democrats, Johnson told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt last week, “move in a herd” and “act like a union” following their leader because there’s no diversity of opinion causing them to stray. Their groupthink could even be described as the behavior of “socialists,” he asserted. Republicans, however, can’t be forced to unite because they’re “rugged individualists.”

That’s one way of putting it. What Johnson didn’t articulate was how a rowdy bunch of flamethrowers on his right flank — roughly 15 lawmakers, many of them members of the vocal Freedom Caucus — has pretty much sabotaged any hope of a conservative legislative agenda this Congress. These hard-liners have refused to compromise on issues ranging from immigration legislation to government spending and foreign aid for Ukraine, and in the process they have yielded power to a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers.

This stubborn adherence to ideological purity is causing the hard-liners to lose leverage in a House where the GOP has just a two-vote majority.

Given the threat looming over Johnson and their inability to compromise, Republicans will probably resort to passing noncontroversial legislation that doesn’t rankle their conference, while also prioritizing possibly cutting federal funds to universities and piecing together an “election integrity” bill that Johnson and former president Donald Trump floated earlier this month. (Voting by undocumented migrants is already illegal in the United States.)

But Congress must reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration by May 11 and fund the government for the 2025 fiscal year while reauthorizing a farm bill by Sept. 30. Given how the far right’s unrealistic demands to curtail spending plagued the last spending process, it’s unlikely that Republicans can notch aggressively conservative wins this time around.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This article is about the House in Congress, not the people. Do you have any source for Dems in the house never getting anything done because of infighting?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My point is that Republicans are not driven by ideology as much as pragmatism. They are rather open about this too.

Compromise, lack of compromise. That doesn't matter. The focus of the Republican party is party unity right now, no joke. They know that they're in a tough spot politically and only sticking together is the only way they can possibly move forward.

You have to understand the mindset of Republicans. And honestly, its not a bad thing in all cases, its just overly strong right now in today's Republican party.

Democrats need to learn from Republicans and become more pragmatic. Republicans need to learn from Democrats and take a few more Losses in the name of ideology (ie: Republicans should actually form a cohesive ideology and agree upon it, no matter how hard it is to do so).

Note that Republicans can't even pass ideological "What the Party Believes in" like statements inside of the Republican National Committee right now. In part because they recognize its not important (which is... true... this current batch of Republicans is not about ideology). Meanwhile the Democrats get all tangled up in ideological arguments that the Republicans aren't even playing with. So whatever, its seen as a win for the current batch of Republicans, but its not good for them in the long term IMO.