This snippet of news about Marjorie Traitor-Greene threatening Kevin McCarthy by withholding her support for his Speaker bid next year (presuming they win the House) shows the problem that the GOP poses to American democracy.
Traitor-Greene is a monstrosity of the QAnon world vomited forth by rural Georgia voters to "own the libs" and pursue the vindictive, brainless politics that Trump elevated from the shadows into the mainstream of American politics. Kevin McCarthy is a spineless idiot who will constantly cater to insurgents like Traitor-Greene because he knows that she represents a sizable wing of his political party.
As long as the GOP has to bend to the will of people like Traitor-Greene, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn and Ur-Morons Paul Gosar and Louis Gohmert, one of the two viable political parties will be constant threat to democratic institutions. I would doubt very much that the Moron Caucus could pass a basic civics or citizenship test, and yet they could be calling the tune in Congress as soon as 13 months from now.
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