We really need to re-examine how we use the word "leadership" in DC. Leaders lead. People in leadership are sometimes cut from that cloth, and sometimes are just good at getting in leadership positions. @GOPLeader is of the latter cohort. politico.com/news/2021/01/0…
1/ We need the former but the @GOP is doomed by the latter. Keep in mind that AFTER the attack Wednesday, 57% of the House GOP voted to affirm the will of the terrorists and overturn a democratic election in AZ.
2/ A few hours later as we'd learned a bit more about the scope of what happened, that number INCREASED. 65% of the House @GOP voted with the terrorists to throw out the results of a democratic election in PA.
3/ McCarthy voted with the terrorists both times.
4/ Either he is a leader of the first class, in which he bent the will of his party to oppose democracy. Or he is a leader of the second class and followed the majority of his party because he feared losing the support of his radically-dominated party.
5/ So if he is a "leader" in the sense that people use that word outside of Washington, he is guilty of sedition. If he is a leader of the 2nd type, he is a stuffed shirt with no moral fiber who is woefully unsuited for this moment.
6/ Rather than focus on intraparty squabbles over who their leadership - however defined - should be, the nation needs to know where all our so-called leaders who did not stand up when it mattered answer to that binary question. /fin
Postscript where National Journal makes a fundamentally similar argument: nationaljournal.com/s/711979?unloc…
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