McCarthy ouster exposes the Republican Party’s destructive tendencies

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One other factor has brought the House Republicans to this point. That is the person and example of Donald Trump, the former president. Trump put governing by chaos on steroids (if one can call what he did governing) and in doing so produced a group of Mini-Mes, symbolized most by the politician who brought down McCarthy on Tuesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.). This is the kind of leadership the party now offers the country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/04/mccarthy-speaker-ouster-analysis/
 
Outlook: Democrats stay in White House with Biden. Keep majority in Senate and take over the House.
Then just a right wing Supreme Court easily ignored.
 
“They don’t get to say they’re conservative because they’re angry and they’re chaotic,” Mr. McCarthy said on Tuesday night of the eight Republicans who voted to oust him. He added, “They are not conservatives and they do not have the right to have the title.”

Still, Mr. McCarthy practiced almost abject obeisance to the far right — right up to the moment they decided to take him down. He gave them concession after concession to win their votes to become speaker, then went back on some of the ones they cared about most, on spending, when they proved impossible to accomplish in a divided government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/us/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker.html
 
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