House Republicans either do not remember, or don’t care that their caucus raised the budget ceiling throughout the Trump administration despite its record spending and tax cuts that cost $2.3 trillion (per Politico). Will the relatively moderate, pro-business wing of the GOP convince the MAGA hard right that concerns of the party’s traditional Wall Street constituents need to be respected? Or will MAGA prevail once again in “owning the libs?” 

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Also in this column …

•Brazil’s own January 6^th, on January 8^th.

•Left-column pundit Ken Zino on convictions in the kidnapping plot of Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in “Is Our Democracy Sufficiently Guarded?” (Page2).

•Zino on the final report by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6^th Attack on the United States Capitol in “Return to ‘Normal Politics’” (Page 2).