Analysis: Kevin McCarthy, a divided Republican Party and the curse of Jan. 6
McCarthy had an opportunity to distance himself and his party from the mayhem of the former president. For a brief moment, he condemned Trump, only to pay penance with a visit to Mar-a-Lago and continuing obeisance to Trump in the two years since. Had he sought to move his party away from election denialism, Republicans might have done better in November and he could have done what every other speaker in the last century had done, which was to win on a single ballot.
On Friday, as Biden and congressional Democrats attended ceremonies marking the second anniversary of the attack and honoring the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol during the siege and commemorating those who lost their lives, only a single House Republican, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, chose to attend. That is the political legacy of Jan. 6 for what once was dubbed the Grand Old Party.
No doubt there is public support for dealing with the massive flood of undocumented immigrants at the Mexican border, or of doing something to reduce the inflow of fentanyl that has killed so many Americans from drug overdoses, or of trying to hold down rising costs. The election results did not suggest a demand for a hard turn to the right or a call to empower an extreme wing of the Republican Party. They were not a clear mandate for Republicans.
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