The Republican Party seems willing to absorb as many legislative losses as possible. Why?

The reason is as cunning as it is cynical, writes Claire Bond Potter

Why, at this time of desperate need, does the Republican leadership refuse to put its fingerprints on legislation that relieves the American people’s suffering? Not one Republican in the entire US Congress voted for the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

If you scrolled through right-wing social media last weekend, you’d see the top news was not the increa…