Trump Lit the Fire That’s Burning Down McCarthy’s House
The California congressman’s quest for the speakership risks defeat at the hands of GOP radicals aping the former president’s attention-getting style of putting vendettas and chaos ahead of policy.
McCarthy Agonistes.
Photographer: Win McNamee/Getty Images North AmericaHere’s how screwed up things are in the Republican race for House speaker: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a voice of reason.
As Kevin McCarthy’s bid to claim the speaker’s gavel smacks into a brick wall, Greene, the far-right Georgia congresswoman famous for spouting Q-Anon conspiracy theories and speculating that space lasers caused forest fires, has become the unlikely figure pointing out that the hardliners tormenting McCarthy are undermining their own party. “They’re proving to the country that they don’t care about doing the right thing for America,” she said on Sunday. “They're proving to the country that they’re just destructionists.”