Carthy: I'm not sure very much ever crosses kevin mc carthy's mind, which strikes me as a vast and flat and arid place. But i think her awareness of history is unusual, because people who are afflicted by presentism that everything is in the next 24 hours. That section of the speech, along with a few others, got a lot of sneering and ridicule from the trumpers and even some of the anti anti trumpers. It shows you how sort of cynical and vacuous and unmoored from the american tradition so many republicans have become," he says.