re: your RFK Jr. point, I mean, we'll see. There's plenty of MAGA influencers freaking out right now, and any candidate leaving the one party that looks like the adults in the room is in effect joining the playpen. You could be right. I'm done making predictions.
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Just one other point, and maybe this is a stretch but I hope not. If you've been following the House Speaker drama going on right now, it's clear that the elected Democrats are very much united and the Republicans are in utter disarray. I'd like to think there'll be a spillover effect onto the voters, with a strong Democratic constituency and a fractured, demoralized GOP constituency. After all the havoc they wreaked these past several years, it's what they deserve.
Dems are more unified than I ever thought they'd be back in 2021. We're seeing things like AOC being sent out to make it clear to that Dems will absolutely not be voting to keep McCarthy.
Part of me thinks that Gaetz is playing some kind of long game where he knows he's probably going to be ousted when whatever that ethics committee report comes out, he wants to run for Florida governor, and by doing this "Heir to Trump" shit maybe he has a better chance if he just says "I tried to do term limits and stop funding to Ukraine and they kicked me out! Vote for me." The other part of me thinks that -- like the rest of the party -- he's just really stupid and crazy.
To this point, I have a question. If I were to say "Right now, The Republican Party is the craziest that any major party has been in our country since before the Civil War" would I be wrong?