Susan B. Glasser writes about House Republicans’ failed vote to elect a new Speaker of the House, and their response to Hamas’s attack on Israel.
This is a Republican civil war that is hard to explain beyond the simple fact that the G.O.P.’s majority in the House is so narrow it requires near-unanimity to govern—a level of unity that Republicans simply do not have. It’s not an ideological fight: Scalise and Jordan are equally far right. The gang of eight rebels who brought down McCarthy, led by the Florida Republican Matt Gaetz, are themselves split over whom to vote for in his place.
Toxic partisanship is another.
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