Why has Congress ground to a halt? Radical Republicans turned a once-proud 'small-government' party into a dangerous, nihilistic 'anti-government' party.
The historic humiliation of Rep. Kevin McCarthy couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.speaker of the House, the first in U.S. history to be voted out of the job. Any pile-on for this mess should be Republican Party-wide.Jackie Calmes brings a critical eye to the national political scene. She has decades of experience covering the White House and Congress.
The Republicans’ increasingly rightward evolution, from Newt Gingrich’s revolution of the 1990s, through the tea party movement of the late aughts to the Trump takeover, has led to nothing short of nihilism now.What does it matter to many Republicans that the House can’t work without a speaker? They no longer believe in government and democracy.
And don’t be fooled by Republicans who’ve been suggesting since McCarthy’s axing that the extremists in the House are limited to the eight who voted to oust him. Among those who supported McCarthy were rabble-rousing Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado, along with others who spend most of their days seeking to wreck the hated government.
Just how nutty is it that Gaetz and Co. would now sack McCarthy for relying on Democrats to pass legislation? This nutty: They couldn’t have pulled off their coup but for Democrats’ votes.Labeling Matt Gaetz and the rest of the dysfunctional House rebels is difficult. Given their radical bent and ideological inconstancy, you can’t call them conservatives.
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