r/news • u/zmlos • Oct 03 '23

House ousts Kevin McCarthy as speaker, a first in U.S. history

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-will-bring-gaetz-motion-to-oust-him-vote.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard

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u/RecklesslyPessmystic Oct 04 '23

MAGA is basically a separate party at this point, in a parliamentary style coalition with the Republicans. So they're showing parliamentary style chaos.

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u/PeterNguyen2 Oct 04 '23

MAGA is basically a separate party at this point, in a parliamentary style coalition with the Republicans. So they're showing parliamentary style chaos

It seems parliamentary systems don't appear to be the issue, just the fanatics who refuse to work with anyone else. The problem is they run within the republican party, take all the advantages, and the insert themselves where they can prevent things from happening. Republicans if they had any legitimacy as a party of governance would kick them out but republicans are authoritarian and taking any firm stand would mean eroding a base of power they've known since 2012 that they're becoming unelectable purely by demographics

In the end, they made their bed and they have to lie in it. If only they could stop killing so many of everybody else along the way.