If the GOP is serious about building a winning party and a winning agenda, Kevin McCarthy needs to follow Liz Cheney to the backbenches.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has never been conservative activists’ dream for a House GOP leader. The blow-dried apotheosis of the mediocre businessman class that has led the GOP to the brink of irrelevance through decades of failed leadership, McCarthy is an easy person for movement conservatives to despise.
McCarthy’s Twitter handle @GOPLEADER, represents what he aspires to be—but in reality, it is we who must say “Go! Pleader” to this political hack who pleads ineffectively with his caucus to stand against the Democrats’ agenda, pleads to disenfranchise members of his caucus in order to appease Democratic whims, and pleads with the news media to change the subject to something other than his rank incompetence.
Most recently we saw this in his decision on Tuesday to elevate through a tweeted press release a dumb but ultimately unimportant offhand Holocaust analogy used by Israel-supporting Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), distracting from the numerous incidents of violence against Jews being committed and excused almost exclusively by left-wing anti-Zionists and antisemites today. Pleader McCarthy always lets the Democrats set the terms of the debate.
Good, I thought it was me only. Get rid of the anti-Trump dude. I cut him off if he surfaces on a show.