The Last Republican Speaker
If Republicans don’t find a way to fight for their party’s right to fully and fairly participate in elections, this Republican speaker may be the last.
By Adam Mill
January 7, 2023
The new HBO Max series, “Superman and Lois,” takes viewers to a “Bizarro” earth in which everything and everyone has a counterpart that’s the same but also the opposite in many ways. For example, Earth Superman’s counterpart has all of the same strength and power but completely different motivations and values. The concept lends itself to an interesting thought experiment: What if the Republicans could recruit a Bizarro Nancy Pelosi to lead their party? With all the same ruthlessness and cunning, yet different principles, how would a Bizarro Pelosi fight for the preservation and promotion of the Republican Party’s interests?
To start with, Bizarro Pelosi would never have tolerated the intelligence services, led by the FBI, interfering with her party’s election campaigns. The three-letter alphabet soup power brokers wouldn’t have dared. But if they had, Bizarro Pelosi would have launched a thousand salvos demanding tech companies and bureaucrats alike account for every act of censorship and misinformation. Think what the real Pelosi would have done if the FBI had helped derail the Democrats’ presidential candidate by deliberately censoring and falsely discrediting evidence that, say, Donald Trump, Jr. took money from the Russians and the Chinese Communists. Again, the FBI wouldn’t have dared.
Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), in contrast, presents himself as an affable guy. He’s really good at not being offensive to anyone. Even his critics credit him with possessing the D.C. street smarts necessary to do the dirty business of yoking special interests to a party’s agenda. I’ve seen him speak just a few times, and I know he will, at least, speak out against the excesses of the Democratic Party. He repeatedly points out that Biden’s economic programs have degraded American paychecks by the equivalent of a month’s pay per year.
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