If you’re the 20 rebels, why not keep up the intransigence? It’s getting you fresh prizes every day https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/05/us/house-speaker-vote?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Republican politicians are no longer the leaders of the GOP, the base-commentariat is.
The "base-commentariat" being the mass of Republican voters who are more or less controlled by Fox News and other far-right media.
By pandering to Fox News & other far right figures in an attempt to win more elections, the GOP has ceded control over the Republican party to the far-right media.
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