a mainstream republican and the reaction was a screaming face emoji. throughout this process, there was a lot of anger from more moderate mainstream republicans at the fact that 10% of the most right wing republicans were in their view holding the other 90% hostage. and there was always this insistence that there were no committees promised. it was never like i need you to put me on this committee or i won t vote for you, but we know that the members told me and other reporters that one of the things that they demanded was what they called conservative representation on committees. what they meant is membership of the far right freedom caucus on these plumb committee assignments. it appears that they got that, alex. riddle me this. kevin mccarthy agreed to a one vote threshold to oust him as speaker. so the far right seems to be winning this hand, but does not a certain amount of political capital lie with the nonmaga-ish