Analysis: The House speaker fight is a microcosm of the GOP’s national problem
McCain lost; Barack Obama won. In short order, an oppositional movement arose on the right focused on attacking Obama and the Democrats. But it was broader than that, of course, also attacking establishment Republicans seen as insufficiently interested in engaging in that same fight — the contours of which moved around depending on what was working in Rush Limbaugh’s tirades or in Fox News’s prime-time shows. Republican leaders managed to harness that energy enough to win the House in 2010.
Trump’s interest in making himself the center of literally everything led to the creation of a concept called Trumpism, the tactics Trump used to hold power. That is distinct from MAGAism, the specific political appeal Trump made to the base-commentariat. Trumpism was Trump attacking opponents and doing mean tweets. MAGAism is the web of nationalism, racial politics and disdain for the establishment in service of which Trump was tweeting.
We’ve now arrived at 2023. As of this writing, there is no speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep.-elect Kevin McCarthy — until earlier this week the House minority leader — having failed multiple times to secure the votes needed to win
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