This is when purity tests overcome democratic ideals. Democracy is a process of debate and compromise. You likely never go home truly happy with everything because there’s no body of people that 100% agree on something, so you must compromise to make the system work.

Once you fill your representative seats with hardline ideologues you end up with people who begin purity testing every issue and candidate. If that candidate or issue doesn’t meet the representative’s ideals 100% of the way, they reject it. There’s no compromise nor debate, just rejection.

Having some ideologues in the House has always happened. The issue is that the GOP let too many in. They’ve spent decades telling their voters that they should get 100% of what they want and anything less is somehow a betrayal to the god and the nation. Once the ideologue percentage in the party exceeds to needed margin to hold the Speaker’s seat, you suddenly end up in purity test stasis. Nothing will satisfy the hardliners from both sides so you can’t get enough votes to move forward as a body.

How do you solve this? Mostly by finding the extreme edges of the party and trimming them off, then compromising with other reps who actually believe in a democratic system until you have a functional majority again. Good luck getting the modern GOP to bend because their voters don’t know how a republic should work, so they’re stuck being crushed by unbending anti-democratic voters on one side and anti-democratic ideologue representatives on the the other.

If they can’t bend, then they break. The only question is when and how much damage they do to the nation before they finally give out.

Lol this is a shit show, who’s got the popcorn?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The political team of former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who became an outspoken opponent of the former president, sent around some old clips about Johnson’s involvement and highlighted The New York Times calling him “the most important architect of the Electoral College objections.”

Troy Nehls of Texas said that he is still planning to nominate Donald Trump for speaker, even if the former president would only be in place for a short time ahead of next year’s presidential election.

Some context on Tom Emmer voting to certify the 2020 election result: He chaired the NRCC that cycle and Republicans had a good night, unexpectedly gaining 13 seats — all on the same ballot as Donald Trump.

The fact that so many of them backed Donald Trump’s theory of a faulty 2020 election — even after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol — isn’t entirely surprising, since it was a common position among GOP leadership.

The GOP’s two previous picks bowed out after they failed to secure the votes needed to win on the floor, leaving the House in a state of unprecedented chaos with a possible government shutdown less than a month away and wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East.

And you can’t have the full complement of American leadership if the House of Representatives is not functioning,” Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., said on NBC’s “Meet the Press NOW,” emphasizing the need for his colleagues to move on and coalesce around a new leader.

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