McCarthy knew the liabilities, accepted the risks, and when the game was up, walked away.
'Chaos!' screamed legacy media headlines and stunned establishment Republicans last week, when a motion to vacate the House speaker's chair succeeded by six votes and Speaker Kevin McCarthy was removed after nine disappointing months on the job. This motion to vacate the speaker's chair, filed by Representative Matt Gaetz , was the first in American history to succeed, and only the third ever attempted.
Spending enough time in Washington can cow even nominally 'conservative' Republicans into accepting that they are members of a de facto coalition government with Democrats, a permanent 'uniparty' in which they are always the browbeaten junior partner, even when they hold the majority. Disrupting the orderliness of their collaboration, as Gaetz did, challenges this status quo. Is it any surprise that grown men who seriously worry about not receiving D.C.
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