Am I Too Pessimistic and Cynical About GOP?

Two readers who watched dramatic events unfold in the House suggest I am

My foreboding piece anticipating damage to the country by the Republican House majority elicited disagreement from this reader:

“I was touched and moved by the kind and respectful words the new Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and the new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke to each other as both being sons of working class families who made it up the h…