About that chaos -- it traces back directly to the Tea Party. IOW familiar names like Steve Scalise, Mick Mulvaney, Louie Gohmert, Michelle Bachman. Direct line forward to maga-ism and a direct line back to Gingrich's obstructionist agenda during Clinton. GOP hasn't wanted to govern for decades.
Very true. The seeds of today's GOP *ideology* were planted by Nixon, and most lovingly grown and tended to by Reagan.
It's just that as time went on, and the American voting population evolved, the GOP realized that there's no majority organic appetite for that ideology. That means they need to rely on other mechanisms to try to stay in power...and that is really the topmost priority of their ideology. The power for power's sake.
My first read by Emily St. John Mandel was The Glass Castle, and it really didn't grab me, but when Station Eleven was published I gave her another try. Station Eleven is worth it when you have time for another go. It's beautifully written, and ultimately about the connections between very human beings in an unthinkable world - . The HBO series is compelling and intimate and some of the best TV I've seen in years.
Oh, i finished the book Station Eleven and really loved it. I just haven't managed to convince myself to watch the series yet. But your recommendation is going to put me over the edge to doing so :)
About that chaos -- it traces back directly to the Tea Party. IOW familiar names like Steve Scalise, Mick Mulvaney, Louie Gohmert, Michelle Bachman. Direct line forward to maga-ism and a direct line back to Gingrich's obstructionist agenda during Clinton. GOP hasn't wanted to govern for decades.
Very true. The seeds of today's GOP *ideology* were planted by Nixon, and most lovingly grown and tended to by Reagan.
It's just that as time went on, and the American voting population evolved, the GOP realized that there's no majority organic appetite for that ideology. That means they need to rely on other mechanisms to try to stay in power...and that is really the topmost priority of their ideology. The power for power's sake.
My first read by Emily St. John Mandel was The Glass Castle, and it really didn't grab me, but when Station Eleven was published I gave her another try. Station Eleven is worth it when you have time for another go. It's beautifully written, and ultimately about the connections between very human beings in an unthinkable world - . The HBO series is compelling and intimate and some of the best TV I've seen in years.
Oh, i finished the book Station Eleven and really loved it. I just haven't managed to convince myself to watch the series yet. But your recommendation is going to put me over the edge to doing so :)
Elizabeth Strout has been a DELIGHTFUL discovery for me, too, this year. I love her books so much, and have just been ripping through them.
Me too, I think I only have one of her earliest works left to go. I'll be sad when I finish that one. Although she seems pretty prolific.