"To say that Congress did, in the end, pass a spending bill is like saying that Joe Biden did end up taking office peacefully in January of 2021. The mob that Donald Trump sent to the Capitol didn't overturn the 2020 election result, it merely established that the Republican Party—and with it, half of the two-party system—belonged to violent reactionaries, unconstrained by the constitution or criminal law."
"Musk's blitz of posting did not shut down the government, or achieve his demand via Twitter, that 'No bills should be passed Congress until Jan. 20, when @realDonaldTrump takes office.' It simply demonstrated that one private person, acting on his own crank impulses, could command Congress to come to a halt, and Congress would, with the president-elect going along."
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