"If there’s one thing to say about Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker of the House by a 216–210 vote, it’s this: This week’s chaos was inevitable from the moment he made untenable concessions to the far-right members of his caucus to loosely grab hold of the gavel in the first place. If there’s a second thing to say about it, it’s that he had it coming."
#McCarthy #Trump #Republicans #chaos #ChaosAgents
https://newrepublic.com/article/175954/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-expelled-vote-got-deserved
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