It’s been one of those weeks when politics in the United States and the United Kingdom dished up piping hot serves of bonkers.
Far-right forces in the Republican party blasted the speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, out of his chair, apparently because he attempted to avert a government shutdown. Dumping the speaker was a first in the country’s political history. But before anyone cries a river for McCarthy, remember he was one of more than 100 Republicans prepared to corrode faith in the country’s democratic processes institutions and institutions by voting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. I read one of the frontrunners for the speakership is the ultra-conservative Republican majority leader, Steve Scalise – once reported to have called himself “David Duke without the baggage”. What times.
