Hartmann: Missouri's Trump Party Fails Its Dear Leader
Missouri House of Representatives Speaker Rob Vescovo, R-Arnold, lowers the gavel signaling the conclusion of the First Regular Session of the 101st General Assembly Convened on the very day that Donald Trump tried to overthrow American democracy, the recently concluded session of the Missouri General Assembly might have evolved as a paean to the wannabe oligarch. It didn’t. Missouri’s Republican Party proved notable more for fission than fiction by session’s end. Despite their 70-percent-plus stranglehold in both chambers, GOP legislators displayed an astounding lack of unity and fealt...