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9. Chaos in the House! And What We Expect from American Democracy in 2023

Is This Democracy

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Is Kevin McCarthy Not Radical?

This is a historic event, you know, historically bad when I guess that we're seeing over the last few days. My assumption is still at some point that either McCarthy or the number two Republican Steve Scalise or somebody in that general Republican leadership will end up being chosen as speaker. There is some element of shot in Freud or some satisfaction in seeing that the Republican Party right now is having to deal with nihilists who don't actually care very much about what their job is and really prefer to sabotage the entire government rather than make government do things.

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