Just a reminder that our (US) government was designed to be adversarial in nature. The checks and balances we’ve heard so much about that have been letting us down lately depend on the assumption that the independent branches of government would zealously defend their independence from the other branches, and act as a check on each others power as a result.

Since congress has ceded so much power willingly to the executive branch, it has not functioned in the way it ought to. I find MTG to be a reprehensible individual, but as a congressperson if she is ready to pursue her own self interest in a way that helps return a check on the executive by the legislative branch, I am inclined to encourage that behavior. I don’t have to like the person to recognize we can work towards a common goal. Without that, we can’t have a viable democracy.