Ben Mathis-Lilley temporarily substitutes on the Surge newsletter while Jim Newell will return next week. Jim Newell is described as the funniest and keenest politics writer in the United States. The American government scene remains highly active despite almost no constitutionally defined governing occurring. Political life consists largely of threats, counterthreats, posturing, and bad-faith manufactured outrage that perpetually fail to resolve. Those dynamics are shifting the national project in an ominous direction recognized even by many right-wing partisans. The current administration is accused of expertise in committing fraud with financial documents. Lisa Cook serves on the Federal Reserve Board and votes independently on monetary policy.
Oh, great. If it isn't you guys again, clamoring to read Slate's rundown of the week's most important figures in politics. "Who's up and who's down?" you say in your nasal, squeaky voices. "Who's hot and who's so over?" In this case, in fact, it is I, substitute Surge author Ben Mathis-Lilley, who is over. The original proprietor of this esteemed newsletter, Jim Newell, will be returning to the helm next week.
This week still needs to be reviewed in the meantime, though, so review it we will. And at present, the American government "scene" is quite active even though it involves almost no actual governing. Or, at least, there is very little governing of the constitutionally delineated kind that prior administrations and legislatures tended to engage in. Instead, we just have the now-customary crosscurrents of threats and counterthreats and posturing and bad-faith manufactured outrage that never seem to resolve themselves
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