you prefer the soviet style prt of the democratic party s internal elections, where votes from merely a formality. all the really big decisions, the meaningful ones, are made thars in advance by donors. oh, of course, everyone sif y on board. that s what they do. but ifou prefe you prefer democy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues thatet actually matter, it s pretty. refreshing to see it . yes, it s a little chaotic, buti this is what it s supposed to be now. we re going to give you a lotth more detail on what s happening in just a minute and throughout the week. but first, t firs a quick overviewe big to frame the big points. kevi kevin mccarthy of californo was going to be speaker. he was g wants to be speaker. in fact, he wants that job, more than anything else in his life. and he was going to get it. ause but then a group ofd that kevin twenty republican members stopped him. now they stopped becausepresent they decided that kevin mccarthy is not conser
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thisthis. is unchartered water0e really for everyone, right? twenty years. i ve never felt what i m feeling right now.we i haven t seen have what we ha5 been watching for the lastand ten , fifteen minutes.itt puts n perspective real and it just puts things in perspective real quick. you may havebly see the tape. you may be watching live. d it s hard to overstate the drama. d the buffalo bills announced afterward thatamar damar hamlin went into cardiac arrest on the field. trainers perform cpr on hifieldr roughly nine minutes. it was horrible.tes. it and the players on the field, a to their great credit, responded not as competitors but as human beings, assionate ones that came together in prayer for the fallen player damar hamlin is now in critical condition inr a hospital in cincinnati, thd it s unclear, sadly, whether he will survive. so that is what we know. it s tragic. know what don t we know? well, what we don t know could s fill volumes starting with why damar hamlin had a hea