House Speaker Ongoing Melodrama

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(10-25-2023, 02:20 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I mean, he is another far-right extremist. Why would anyone think they would give him a pass?

I don't know what some folks are thinking.  It'll be interesting to see if this is a short-term or long-term win.  This could be spun to voters as showing that the GOP as a whole takes orders from Trump's social media and after the 2020 midterms were a veritable bust due to multiple MAGA candidates being stuffed into losing fights in swing states, I wouldn't be so sure elevating a Matt Gaetz and MTG approved candidate to a major role is going to win back the independent voters.

It seems like the MAGA wing just wants to win for themselves and it hasn't yielded a significant victory since 2016. The GOP did better as whole when they were seen as low taxes and yay guns rather that "Trump must be obeyed."