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The Modern Version of Glengarry Glen Ross: A.B.M.
In a take on ‘always be closing’ in the Republican Party, it’s ‘always be Maga.’
Sleep for many has been disrupted ever since Katie Britt, the Senator from Alabama, gave her creep-as-hell rebuttal from her kitchen table after Joe Biden’s excellent State of the Union (SOTU) speech last week. Britt really freaked people out, and if we learned that she had stabbed her family — hundreds and hundreds of times — prior to being filmed live from her kitchen, I am sure most of us would not have been surprised.
Britt, it turns out, was not always the bizarrely psycho MAGA mom with a penchant for really inappropriate and unctuous smiles. Just last year, as a matter of fact, Britt made video comments about Biden’s SOTU speech, and the senator said that while “you may not agree with everything, nothing he said was scary.” Just a year ago, Britt was pulling for bipartisan solutions for many of the nation’s problems. Now, however, she is angling for a lead in an as-of-yet-unnamed horror film.
The same transition occurred with the Republican from Texas Rep. Roy Nehls. He was elected with the promise to go to Washington and help the Republicans move past the partisanship that has turned the party into an example of extreme dysfunction. Nehls promised to find common ground…
