They don’t care about democracy, they don’t care about muh norms, they care about asserting their agenda.
by Violated_Norm “We will keep changing the rules until the game gives us a win”
norms
JAY COST: In the Kavanaugh Hearings, Democrats Break Norms to Gain Power… McConnell: Senate Will Hold Kavanaugh Vote ‘This Week.’
via nationalreview: What grates me about this recent talk of norms is that that efforts to police norms have of late been notoriously one-sided, mainly serving the purpose of advancing Democratic political priorities. For instance, in 2011, President Barack Obama invited …
The people who hyped the breakdown of norms under Obama are now offended that Trump can ignore those norms.
DON SURBER: Why We Don’t Care, Katy Tur. Republicans have a long history of sacrificing candidates at the altar of appeasement over one of these media-driven fake scandals. Then came Obama. His political mentor was an unrepentant terrorist. His religious mentor …
Bill Clinton: Norms of ‘What You Can Do to Someone Against Their Will’ Have Changed
President Bill Clinton’s new interview with PBS NewsHour, which aired last week, featured some shocking, and strikingly tone-deaf, comments from the former president about sexual harassment and assault, including his opinion that “what you can do to someone against their will” …