House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called for Republicans to ā€œget their act togetherā€ and elect the next speaker while slamming the ā€œextremistsā€ within their party.

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      1 year ago

      You donā€™t get anything positive done by negotiating with fascists, paleoconservatives and some of the worst libertarians and liars of no fixed ideology in the world.

      Listening to them at all inevitably leads to outcomes much worse than no change.

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      No, thereā€™s genuinely no advantage to negotiating with the nutcase section of the GOP. The only thing that achieves, over the past 30 years Iā€™ve been watching politics, is shifting the Overton Window further to the right.

      Democrats are already center right Republicans, they donā€™t need to move further right