and the humiliation that s come with that here in front of the whole nation. tonight we begin with how we got here, because everyone s been absorbing the days of chaos, headlines about the failure of the republican majority to get its work start in the its new congress. a story that really goes beyond politics and it s reaching people who don t always follow the swearing in or the speaker s race. if you approach this with fresh eyes as many americans have, saying what s going on over there? you may wonder why the big chaotic fight continues with rolling losses for republicans. why is it happening at the finish line of a win for the gop in the midterms? and why is the big fight in washington within one party, not between one of the typically warring factions between parties? there are many factors but three reasons loom large. first a crop of republicans who are more focused on hijacking than running. second, this trump internet industrial complex that puts the content, the tr
display, because fox elite have been blasting the gop defectors. the tea party an anti-obama wave that morphed into an anti-boehner, anti-leadership wave. that tea party group, which was the baseline for what we re seeing expose this week, they made boehner s life hell and had more demands that were about the show than any reality or any governoring and definitely any vote counting. boehner was conservative, anti-obama, but he would publicly complain he was forced to negotiate in fantasy land as he hit those republican detractors. frankly i just think that they ve lost all credibility. they had no cred with him, but their content was rile up part of the base, and their chaos was thrilling to some. it through sand in the government until it could fail.
industrial complex that puts the content, the trolling, the internet theaterics above the real world we live in. and third, the sheer math in the republican party s red fizzle this november. no wave, no large majority, no way to mathematically overwhelm this band of now too. i m going to go through this briefly before we bring in the hijackers. they are a small share of the republican caucus, but they are willing to upend everything. bush white house veteran david frum stressed that while leverage and bargaining are typical parts of politics we know that what is different here is these republicans who do not want something in return for the hijacking. they just want to keep hijacking. what if there s nothing you
against mccarthy tonight. again, a smaller number than the margin boehner had. but mccarthy looks weaker because the gop is so much weaker now. they blew their touted red wave with a historically terrible showing in nochl we remember watching kornacki at the board. there wasn t any wave, a fizzle of extreme candidates and political malpractice. they usually buck trends that fave the opposition party. that fizzle is the reason why mccarthy is going through his living hell of groundhog day this week. at times that historical context may have gotten lost. boehner would have been stopped with exactly this kind of thin margin. so if you re looking at this and saying, mccarthy is so much worse at doing this than boehner that s a math thing, not a leadership thing. now, boehner s opponents ultimately did oust him, and his successors, if you remember, fared even worse. there was a member of his leadership team, eric kanter who