It’s been a long time coming, this has been fermenting since the GOP embraced the tea party movement. They thought they could maintain their hierarchy over the extremist in the party by handing out committee membership, and until Trump came along it was working out.
It will be interesting to see whether the old guard will pull rank, and clean out the freedom caucus from important committees, or if they are just going to throw the towel and hand the party over. Either way, it’ll be interesting, the GOPs largely remained politically capable due to their previous ability to whip the house members into compliance with the speaker.
The old guard are running for the hills (and still supporting the extremists). They handed it all over the second they bought into any part of The Big Lie or the Jan 6 excuses. The GOP dead. It’s the GQP now.
That said, they’re only “extremist” in that they can’t be bothered to not say horrible things while pursuing horrible policies. The old guard did the latter but smiled more.
So interesting, Trump waved MTG off doing this and now there are more getting ready to sign up. More chaos from the MAGA crowd. Looks like a circular firing squad more and more
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