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Media is promoting headlines that Democrats are bailing out Mike Johnson when in reality, that's just how it's supposed to work.
It's not bailing out, it's functioning as a chamber that has different representatives representing different districts.
This is really important to call out because this notion of Us versus them, team red versus team blue is really sensationalized, misleading, and just plain corrupting to the US system of government.
The Speaker of the House is the speaker of the entire House, Democrats and Republicans and independents.
There are majority leaders and minority leaders to represent the two major parties, and it's just ignorance of basic civics to conflate the speaker with those other offices.
