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  The "idiot dream" would be one of the biggest possible steps forward for American governance. Fuck the alt-right. Get the half of the GOP House that still believes in elections, and find a speaker that they and the Dems can tolerate, and make a coalition House. That's the only sane way to rule such a tightly-divided and insane-at-the-margins group.
context: The idea of a "unity speaker" is catnip for screenwriters and bipartisanship fetishists, but wholly at odds with reality because they ignore the nature and the goals of the current Republican Party. >
  
  Yep. It's all over the megathread too. People think this is a real possibility. Completely divorced from the reality of modern politics. This is a unicorn. A fantasy. Nothing more.