.ZeeshanAleem: Tapes prove Kevin McCarthy has a conscience — that he ignores
“He’s putting people in jeopardy,” McCarthy said of Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who was appearing on television after Jan. 6 as a pro-Trump attack dog and criticizing Cheney. “And he doesn’t need to be doing this. We saw what people would do in the Capitol, you know, and these people came prepared with rope, with everything else.”
At another point, McCarthy seemed to entertain the idea that his own political gains were less important than the lives of lawmakers. “The country is too crazy,” McCarthy said. “I do not want to look back and think we caused something or we missed something and someone got hurt. I don’t want to play politics with any of that.”
But as we now know, McCarthy was indeed more than willing to play politics with the lives of his own colleagues, as well as with the life of American democracy. He didn't take meaningful steps to put a stop to it, but he did target a TrumpIs the new reporting surprising? Not particularly. But it still does shock.
I tend to find depictions of politicians as uniformly soulless, power-hungry megalomaniacs in shows such as Netflix’s “House of Cards” cartoonish and unfair. As much as Washington brims with corruption and people with huge egos, many head there because they have ideas about the world that they believe in and wish to bring to life.
But the Trump era really laid bare the “House of Cards” caucus of the GOP. Seeing one ambitious Republican after another reinvent and contort themselves has been sobering. From
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