Cannibalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/opinion/kevin-mccarthy-gingrich-house-speaker.html
("Why Kevin McCarthy Can't Do His Job")
Cannibalism.
From his first day at his new post, Kevin McCarthy has been in hot water. Damned if he did or even thought about doing. Not being vilified merely by those on the other side of the aisle, but the ones sitting at the table next to him. Ready to be swallowed whole by the enemies within.
Making a Faustian bargain in exchange for what exactly? The sword of Damocles omnipresent. Neutered and ridiculed. Et tu Brute tattooed on his forehead.
And so he can't even shepherd his forces to pretend to try to keep the government functioning. He is a Second Amendment gun with no bullets in the chamber.
We keep waiting for the nadir before we can try to climb out of the enormous hole that the Republican party has dug for our democracy. Convinced it cannot get more dysfunctional. Until it does.
Kevin McCarthy, leader without a cause. Being eaten alive, day by day and piece by piece. By his own.