The Performance Is Over, The Audience Applauds, Players Take Their Bows.

But what most of the audience doesn’t get is that the play is reality.

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McCarthy Did Not “Cave” To the Right-Wing. He Is the Right-Wing

It is clear that huge concessions were made, related to House rules, committee assignments, and perhaps even the vigor with which the Republican Inquisition of both Biden and the entire federal government will now proceed (that such an Inquisition would be the first order of Republican business has never been in doubt).

“The desire to see the Gaetzes of the world as crazy extremists beyond the pale runs so deep among the commentariat that even the very best pundits fall prey to it.”

But much too much is being made of the contest between McCarthy and the opponents–Republicans all–who held up his ascension for fourteen ballots before giving their very visible tacit consent. …