today s republican party exists in is that there s a so-called deep state and that is out to persecute the ex-president, his allies and other conservatives. now having managed to become house speaker by the skin of his teeth, kevin mccarthy is enacting an agenda based entirely off of that warped and delusional world view. one of his first acts, removing congressman adam schiff and eric swalwell from the house intelligence committee. mccarthy denied it had anything to do with the fact that they are critics of a disgraced twice impeached ex-president and his allies. the cardinal sin appears to be i led the impeachment of his master in mar-a-lago, for withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid in ukraine, a nation that was then at war with russia, in order to extort that country and to help donald trump s re-election campaign. you are seeing the fulfillment of kevin mccarthy s corrupt bargain, with marjorie taylor greene, somebody who declared on january 5,
Because he s been floating the idea he s running for president himself, and he s out with that book where he s sort of reveling in the sort of performative jerkitude, minimalizing, rationalizing the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi. he obviously thinks he doesn t need to look like a nice guy to run for office. that weird triangulation you heard there where he refuses to condemn the actual attack on january 6th, but then at the end, you know, describes the day of glory being the certification of joe biden s election election as president, which obviously will not play well down in mar-a-lago. so he is distancing himself from the trump in the sense he said donald trump lost that election, joe biden won that election, it was good that they went along with all of that. so in some ways he is trying to distance himself, but at the same time not distancing himself
Despite their faces? i think that s really possible. you know, i think you re right to do two things right there. you connect the dots between the performative jerkitude of governor abbott in texas and the governor of florida. it will cost the citizens of their state a lot of money. you know, the thing about ron desantis, ron desantis is not a conservative. otherwise, he wouldn t be destroying local control. it is not populist to go after disney. it is important for people to understand what he is doing here. there is no real public policy justification for the legislation attacking disney. it is strictly and totally a matter of retaliation, revenge against disney for engaging in political speech he disagrees with. this is the right s new enthusiasm for cancel culture and using the power of government to punish private businesses that engage in wrongthink or speech or take