It’s hard to find a better microcosm for today’s Republican Party than the self-inflicted debacle that America witnessed this week.
The GOP holds a narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, and yet the party has botched in the worst way the selection of a House speaker. Instead of unifying behind California Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Republicans displayed on national television the toxic fractiousness that has become their party’s most glaring — and burdensome — trait.
If nothing else, it amounted to entertaining, bizarre theater.
