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The Republicans’ debt ceiling fanaticism is paying off with what Bloomberg describes as a rout in global stocks.
Why were they willing to defy good sense and past practice and cause the first downgrading of the credit of the United States of America since 1789?
Chauncey de Vega has a theory:
And they are willing to take the rest of us down with him.
Before you dismiss his theory because it sounds icky and gross and “we don’t want to talk about that,” click to read the whole thing, then decide whether or not he’s got a point.
These are not nice people.
