Can this political party be saved? From itself?
By Sid Schwab / Herald columnist
It’s a serious question, the answer to which is of consequential importance to our country: Is the Republican Party past the point of no return to normality? It feels impossible, by now, to think it ever could. What would need to happen?
Consider Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. Suddenly powerful, the empress of election denial and vaccine refusal, she considered 9/11 an “inside job,” suggested no plane crashed into the Pentagon, blamed California’s forest fires on space lasers controlled by Jews. Who, the minute she slithered into D.C., filed articles of impeachment against President Biden, under whose leadership Donald Trump’s failing economy has turned around (35 percent of America’s total debt was added during Trump’s single term), the pandemic was brought under control, unemployment continues at record lows, who hasn’t yet fomented insurrection or tried to bully a foreign leader into getting dirt on an opponent. Plus, her posts on social media are among the most inflammatory, conspiratorial, and false of any right-winger. Which is a very high bar.
“I will never leave that woman,” said caponized Speaker Kevin McCarthy. “I will always take care of her.” What better example of decline is there than the elevation of such a person, not to mention McCarthy himself, to a position of controlling influence in that party? And whereas he has the title, having agreed to populate the Rules Committee with people of her ilk, he retains little of the power of the speakership. “Rules” is the committee that, among other powers, decides which legislation makes it to the floor.
Say what you will about Nancy Pelosi — considered, even by some on the right, one of the most effective speakers in history — she’d have never let it happen to her. Will that group of hostage-taking radical nihilists ever produce legislation that becomes law? More importantly and even less likely, legislation that will benefit any but themselves and their dark money benefactors? We’ll find out soon enough. Enough, one expects, to turn control of the House back to Democrats in two years.
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Because they think they already are. 
