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On Tuesday night, The Washington Post's editorial board posted an opinion column pompously titled "Democrats should help elect a Republican speaker." It's one of the worst examples yet of the national media's belief that Republicans are allowed to be incompetent extremists who wreck budgets, raze federal agencies, and attempt coups, and that Democrats, being the adults, are expected to trail behind, patching the government back together again.
"This is Republicans’ mess. But it hurts the whole country. If Republicans change course — for example, by nominating a better candidate — Democrats should be willing to help them clean it up," says Post opinion-page editor David Shipley and his editorial board. So right off the bat, we've established the theme: Democracy Dies in Partisanship.
But the Post's editorial wonks don’t provide any plausible path toward that "clean up."
