Opinion Today: A ‘chaos bomb in the middle of the House’

What does a post-McCarthy House mean for the Republican Party? 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Our hosts root out what has more nuance than meets the eye and give it the kind of sharp and surprising analysis that can happen only in conversation among four smart (and, coincidentally, hilarious) friends. Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen love to delve into the subjects that you might think you’ve already made your mind up about, like [modern masculinity](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnAn0HP0TgaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNS8yNS9vcGluaW9uL21lbi1pbi10aGUtMjFzdC1jZW50dXJ5Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAyMzEwMDYmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTA0NTYxJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE0NjY2NyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZR0H-B9llReZ3FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD) and [elite education](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnAn0HP0TpaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wOC8wMy9vcGluaW9uL2xlZ2FjeS1hZG1pc3Npb25zLWVsaXRlLWNvbGxlZ2VzLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAyMzEwMDYmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTA0NTYxJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE0NjY2NyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZR0H-B9llReZ3FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD), and then challenge assumptions, add context and get to the heart of big questions of modern life. As I listen to them push one another and change one another’s minds in our recordings, I always find that my own thinking gets a re-examination. I leave every episode with a tweak — or a total reframing — of my thinking about the way the world works. This week our team was transfixed by the ousting of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. We knew we needed to dive deeper into the question hanging over Washington this week. As Lydia puts [it in our episode](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRnAn0HP0TvaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8xMC8wNi9vcGluaW9uL3JlcHVibGljYW5zLWhvdXNlLWtldmluLW1jY2FydGh5LWNoYW9zLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MzkmZW1jPWVkaXRfdHlfMjAyMzEwMDYmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTA0NTYxJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE0NjY2NyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZR0H-B9llReZ3FIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD): How does this help anyone get anything done? Michelle, Ross and Lydia (as Carlos convalesced from a cold) got to the bottom of exactly that. What motivated Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida and his cohort to drop this “chaos bomb in the middle of the House”? What do the ongoing ideological and procedural schisms in the Republican Party tell us about its modern identity? Which representatives are leading this narrow majority now, and what is it that they want? Is this iteration of the G.O.P. just flat-out ungovernable? And as they always do on “Matter of Opinion,” they ask: Why? And perhaps more pressing: What happens next for the politicians in power and the voters who put them there? 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