Democrats should not bail out Republicans when the MAGA beast they fed for so long comes for them.
Rep. Jim Jordan, a candidate for House speaker, makes his way toward a GOP leadership meeting at the Capitol on Wednesday. Because Republicans are such firm believers in benevolence toward political foes, they are furious with Democrats for failing to save Kevin McCarthy. After DemocratsBut Democrats were right not to save McCarthy.
But that’s not quite where McCarthy and most House Republicans are. Their game is to indulge Trump and the MAGA movementBut they’re not willing to damage their own political prospects with a protracted government shutdown, as the Gaetz crew wants. McCarthy will greenlight corrupt congressional hearings to help Trump, but he won’t follow the logic of Trumpian politics all the way to Armageddon. Yet there’s no GOP majority behind refraining from Armageddon, either.problem.
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