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The national Republican Party has broken functional government

Today’s Senate, where you need 60 votes to get virtually anything done, is a historical anomaly.
Its roots can be traced to the unyielding GOP opposition to President Barack Obama in 2009 and 2010,
when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell turned the Senate into a dysfunctional body in which priority legislation was routinely subject to a filibuster.

When Republicans won a Senate majority in 2014, McConnell found a new way to deny Obama victories:
blocking his judicial appointments.
These actions were an expression of an attitude popular among Republican voters and leaders alike:
that Democrats can never be legitimate leaders, even if elected, and thus do not deserve to wield power.