Commentary
One might suppose that the last three years would be a wake-up call. What’s it going to take for the Republican Party to get serious? Right now, we have 20 or so holdouts who have grave doubts about Kevin McCarthy (proud member of the World Economic Forum) as Speaker of the House, justifiably so, and they are holding up his election, which strikes me as quite brave.
I completely get the intuition that he is not the right man for the job, simply because he looks and sounds for all the world like a part of the problem that got us into this mess in the first place. He certainly isn’t the one to lead us out of it. The point is that the Republicans desperately need to do more than manage the status quo. We need dramatic change and now before it is too late….