Kevin McCarthy was booted from his House speaker position, so let’s dispense with any illusions that America has two functioning political parties.
As McCarthy’s life dream of being House speaker was blown up by Rep. Matt Gaetz, the GOP’s leading presidential candidate, Donald Trump, was in a New York courtroom where he’s on trial for fraud.
Former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was booted from his position Tuesday by hardcore MAGA members of his own party, so let’s quickly dispense with any illusions that America presently has two functioning political parties.
There is the Democratic Party, which holds the presidency and the Senate, which just helped McCarthy pass a stopgap funding bill to keep the government from shutting down and whose House members stayed united in supporting the GOP-led motion to kick McCarthy to the curb.
And there is the Republican Party, whose House Members are clearly engaged in a civil war between far-right extremists and what passes these days for moderate Republicans, with “moderate” meaning “slightly less extreme.”
Republicans were ousting their own speaker and sending the House into disarray while Trump was targeting an innocent law clerk and sitting in his own fraud trial, again giving the field of other, not-indicted GOP presidential primary candidates zero oxygen.Kevin McCarthy’s dream of being House speaker vanished in a poof of MAGA hysteria
As McCarthy was seeing his life dream of being House Speaker blown up by Rep.
