COMMENTARY: For all his complicity in this relentless chaos, the disorder in the GOP predates Donald Trump by at least four decades, writes Eileen McNamara.
the Electoral College results, even after the U.S. Capitol had been ransacked by violent insurrectionists on Jan. 6, 2021.
The House dissidents have no more interest in governance than Trump did, but the destructive force he unleashed threatens to consume the former president, as well. Far from embracing Trump’s call to support McCarthy, Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert taunted him instead, urging him to convince his candidate to withdraw.
Gingrich was among the first to recognize the power of performative politics. In 1984, after the close of the chamber’s business, he and his allies hijacked the C-Span cameras then trained on the podium on the House floor to denounce Democrats for being anti-American and “blind to communism.” In response, Massachusetts’ own, Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. insisted that C-Span sweep the floor every few minutes to show those watching at home that the chamber was empty.
As Gingrich knew it would, the confrontation made news. “The number one fact about the news media is they love fights,”Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan of Ohio are the natural successors to thatHad voters turned this week from the chaos on Capitol Hill to the opposite end of Pennsylvania Avenue they would have witnessed a contrasting take on the role of the federal government.
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