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McCarthy Says He Will Leave Congress at the End of the Year
(www.nytimes.com)
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This is how fascism advances, they eat their own, it's part of the life cycle. People like McCarthy think they're playing the game and that they're going to always have a seat at the table, only to realize that they're just keeping the seat warm for whichever next-level extremist stabs them in the back. Rinse and repeat until MCarthy seems tame by comparison to whoever is there in the end.
Pence seems chill compared to the likes of Mccarthy, and McCarthy is milquetoast compared to those that ousted him
Yup, the right has been shifting the Overton Window for decades. It's why you see absurdity like people being "nostalgic" about war criminals like GWB. Unfortunately a lot of people need to actually see the worst thing happen to believe that it's coming down the pipe.