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The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Outrage TV: critics condemn Gaetz and co for performance over politics

Matt Gaetz surrounded by reporters
Matt Gaetz, who led a successful effort to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker. Photograph: Branden Camp/Zuma/Shutterstock

Rightwing media helped spawn the gang of Republican rabble-rousers who turned Kevin McCarthy’s speaker’s chair into an ejection seat.

But even though their own party members and some of those same media anchors are criticizing the eight lawmakers after last week’s debacle, experts say the professed outrage is just more fuel for a fire in which performance politics burns the brightest.

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