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They say you are known by the company you keep.
For Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans, members who post animated videos of them killing their own colleagues and plan fundraisers with neo-Nazis are welcomed, if not praised. Those who support a historic, once-in-a-generation infrastructure deal that will fix the nation’s crumbling roads, secure our supply chain, and provide millions of Americans with good-paying union jobs? Well that is a bridge too far.
The split-screen of House Republicans failing to rein in their most radical members such as Gosar, while simultaneously eating their own for the simple sin of voting for bipartisan legislation, perfectly encapsulates everything that Kevin McCarthy’s GOP has become and will continue to be.
It’s as simple as it is dangerous: House Republicans are the party of extremism and insurrection, and members who do not get in line will be kicked to the curb.
New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait summed it up best last week:
The House Republican caucus has been an inmate-run asylum for years, and is shot through with kooks, open racists, and suspected criminals. Finally, there is a movement afoot to clean house. But the kooks are not the targets of this housecleaning, which is instead directed at the 13 Republicans who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
“Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans’ choice to punish members who vote for American bridges and union jobs while giving a pass to members who promote violence and cozy up to white nationalists is a terrifying preview of the GOP’s priorities if they were to gain power,” said DCCC spokesperson Chris Taylor.
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