“Government
remained in the hands of fools and adventurers, foreigners and fanatics, who
between them went near to wrecking the work of the Tudor monarchy.”—George
Macaulay Trevelyan, A Shortened History of England (1942)
Leave out “foreigners” (they would!) and change “the
Tudor monarchy” to “American democracy,” and you would have a pretty good
shorthand description of the current House of Representatives—one that will
change forever (for the worse) the associations with “Tea Party” in American
history.
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