Here is what we've learned from two and a half years of Republican control of Congress and the White House:

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, will do anything he thinks will please President Donald Trump, no matter how doomed that performative appeasement may be.

And that will put U.S. Sen. John Thune, the Senate Republican leader from South Dakota, in a tight spot because his chamber’s parliamentary structures set up hurdles his caucus can’t always clear to accomplish what Trump wants.

And Trump, confronted with this intraparty dysfunction – one ally who will always bend to his every wish, jamming another who just can’t sometimes – will throw the same tantrum over and over again.

Which brings us back to the so-called SAVE America Act – a flagrantly unconstitutional attempt to federalize elections and Trump's driving, second-term obsession.

Everybody knows the SAVE Act is dead, but Republicans love drama

Johnson recently announced that he would make yet another attempt to pass the SAVE America Act through both the House and Senate, inserting it into legislation authorizing a mammoth $350 billion in military funding.

Republicans are using a process called........

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