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One year ago, way back in 2022, Republicans came to the American people and said ‘Give us power. You can trust us. Look at those gas prices. Look at inflation.’

V**ers looked around and saw Donald Trump, and rights being taken from women with alarming speed, and marched to the polls to say, ‘No thanks.’

However, Republicans in several red states gerrymandered African-American majority districts out of existence, while New York Democrats imploded, and could not agree on a new e******n map, and the result was that the Republicans only won the midterm popular v**e by 2.8% and ended up with what would become a 5 seat majority.

As soon as House Republicans won, chaos was the order of the day.

The matches were struck for today’s culminating inferno when it took 15 v**es to elect a Speaker of the House.

Kevin McCarthy gave everything to win the speakership, including his own future, which came to an end today.

The cable news talkers will tell you that McCarthy being removed from power was where this was always going to end up, but the funny thing is before Tuesday’s v**e, they never expressed this opinion.

Today’s events were about more than Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gaetz.

The motion to vacate wasn’t really about MAGA.

What happened in the House was about democracy, and what happens when a political party turns against basic democratic principles.