Kevin Forbid

Republicans have failed to elect a speaker of the House, and the ensuing crisis—which has effectively dissolved Congress—is a harbinger of what to expect over the next two years. When you imagine the future speaker trying to get 218 votes to raise the debt limit, or renew aid to Ukraine, our schadenfreude over the ramshackle Republican conference gives way to genuine alarm. It’ll be Hakeem Jeffries’ job to stand against that juggernaut of corruption and dysfunction and hostage taking. Will Jeffries and his lieutenants be an effective opposition? Can they improve on the leadership team that just stepped down? Is there anything even a brilliant leadership team can do to stop this Republican majority from breaking everything in sight? Washington Post opinion writer Greg Sargent joins host Brian Beutler to discuss the danger Republicans have placed all of us in, and what optimal resistance to them looks like.