Charlie Sykes on Failed House Speaker Vote: What an Extraordinary Moment of a Political Failure By a Political Party

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SYKES: "Their strategy is to go to the real bosses of the party, which is of course the entertainment wing of the party, to go to Tucker and Sean Hannity and Ben Shapiro and count on them to beat up these 20 dissenters, which tells you really where the center of power and the priorities of this party are right now. And also, historians are going to have a hard time explaining the scene that you saw today where the party that lost control is jubilant, celebrating, and the party that is taking control, that would normally have this moment of triumph and jubilation and expectation has decided instead to pull the pin on the grenade and toss it among themselves. What an extraordinary moment of political failure by a political party."