Aside from a fairly obvious effort to try and annoy ogre45 by trying to pretend he's past his prime,  assuming he ever got  to the end of this op-ed, I can't figure out where all the recent NYT efforts to try and downplay what just transpired come from.Is it not completely obvious that the House is now effectively under the  ruthless, uncompromising thumb of the same power hungry gang who implicitly, if not explicitly, enthused  about the 1-6-21 Insurrection 1 as it was happening? The House leadership, such as it is, is desperate to maintain its symbolic authority as Majority Leader and fellow team members. But it can't do so without the cooperation ofthe twenty+  participants of  Insurrection 2. This is evident from how the Democratic Party behaved during the weekend.  They clearly have calculated/decided  that it's in their interests to distance the caucus from whatever chaos  will be let loose by kowtowing down to whatever crazy, self destructive notions will be imposed upon the House by this cabal of insurrectionists.As a result of this strategic error by DP,   enormous, if not complete,  power has now been effectively transferred in a bloodless coup to this gang of 20+,  who both clearly know it and will exploit it to the full, since they now have clear and very convincing evidence that mccarthy et al will do anything at all to maintain their now purely symbolic authority. What is the point of denying this or ignoring it?

Aside from a fairly obvious effort to try and annoy ogre45 by trying to pretend he's past his prime,  assuming he ever got  to the end of this op-ed, I can't figure out where all the recent NYT efforts to try and downplay what just transpired come from.Is it not completely obvious that the House is now effectively under the  ruthless, uncompromising thumb of the same power hungry gang who implicitly, if not explicitly, enthused  about the 1-6-21 Insurrection 1 as it was happening? The House leadership, such as it is, is desperate to maintain its symbolic authority as Majority Leader and fellow team members. But it can't do so without the cooperation ofthe twenty+  participants of  Insurrection 2. This is evident from how the Democratic Party behaved during the weekend.  They clearly have calculated/decided  that it's in their interests to distance the caucus from whatever chaos  will be let loose by kowtowing down to whatever crazy, self destructive notions will be imposed upon the House by this cabal of insurrectionists.As a result of this strategic error by DP,   enormous, if not complete,  power has now been effectively transferred in a bloodless coup to this gang of 20+,  who both clearly know it and will exploit it to the full, since they now have clear and very convincing evidence that mccarthy et al will do anything at all to maintain their now purely symbolic authority. What is the point of denying this or ignoring it?

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