Crash Course: Kevin McCarthy's embarrassing lesson: MAGA torches everything it touches — and will destroy itself

Democrats get it: Don't get in the way when your opponents are self-destructing. [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm_8rBP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZW1yeGNpcndzMC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXQ5ZG92bWVhc3VXA3NwY0IKZRTFRR1lfSnKm1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm_8rBP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvcWp5ZXFnc2Q0eC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXQ5ZG92bWVhc3UmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZRTFRR1lfSnKm1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Kevin McCarthy's embarrassing lesson: MAGA torches everything it touches — and it will destroy itself Amanda Marcotte: McCarthy's speakership is deader than Donald and Melania's marital relations. The MAGA movement is simply unsustainable. It cannot help but destroy everything it touches. Right now, it's the GOP they're ripping apart. But eventually, this urge to ruin everything will take out their own movement. 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