It was no use for Kevin McCarthy to make himself a puppet of the radical Trumpists. They don’t want solutions, they want destruction.
The spectacular end of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the US House of Representatives was already planned when he was elected to office. This January, a small group of radical ideologues refused to support him for so long that he made absurd and far-reaching compromises that fundamentally undermined his authority. It was clear that this wouldn’t last long.