18-24-61-B-17-17-4@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoJim Jordan fails again to win speaker gavel in second vote, getting less support than first trywww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square140fedilinkarrow-up1867arrow-down113
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minus-squareSkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up11·9 months agoI think this gets things backwards. MAGA is the party as far as I can see. Trump has dominant support in the primaries. So who is kicking out whom? Even the non-freedom caucus members have to be MAGA-lite.
minus-squareAstrealix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoI mean, yes, but the leadership is still nominally under control of the old guard. Then again, if Jan 6 didn’t stop them, nothing probably will.
I think this gets things backwards. MAGA is the party as far as I can see. Trump has dominant support in the primaries. So who is kicking out whom? Even the non-freedom caucus members have to be MAGA-lite.
I mean, yes, but the leadership is still nominally under control of the old guard. Then again, if Jan 6 didn’t stop them, nothing probably will.