The anti-Kevin McCarthy campaign wasn't a Trump-led plot. if anything it exposed the limits of Trump's power, argues Thomas Gift.
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The anti-Kevin McCarthy campaign wasn't a Trump-led plot. if anything it exposed the limits of Trump's power, arguesspeaker of the US House of Representatives after 15 gruelling votes – a longer process than has been needed than at any time since the civil war. Around 20 of his fellow Republicans had been refusing to approve his appointment to the role – one of the most powerful in US politics – and required numerous concessions to bring enough of them on board.
Republicans promised an obstructionist government. But they didn’t campaign on obstructing themselves. For a tiny minority of Republicans from ruby-red districts, sticking it to McCarthy has been the ultimate power play. Setting the party’s “establishment” on fire doesn’t just seem like a byproduct of the venture, more and more it looks to be
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