All that Tennessee Republicans achieved with the expulsion of two duly elected Democratic Party members of the Tennessee legislature was to provide raw material for social media-fueled outrage, help the Democratic fundraising arm and turn a pair of progressive young Black legislators into national political figures.
You’d have thought one of the older, wiser GOP leaders in that state with a sense of how communication works these days might have seen that one coming, and that Vice President Kamala Harris would be jumping on a plane for Tennessee for a can’t-lose trip for maximum personal and political benefit.
Apparently no one in the GOP was capable of looking this far ahead. The appetite of Republican lawmakers at all levels for self-destruction is boundless, and ultimately, destructive to the party and the union.
