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Today we're going to talk about how Republicans made a fatal mistake during their latest power grab and may very well have signed their own death certificate.

And I interviewed AOC about the Republicans blaming Democrats for not saving Kevin McCarthy,

how she was instrumental in getting the New York Attorney General Pro against Trump started that resulted in the trial we're watching now,

and whether she believes there will ever be another Biden impeachment inquiry hearing after the disaster that was the first one.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

So these last few weeks, objectively speaking, have ranked somewhere between dumpster fire and the Hindenburg for Republicans,

first from the disaster that was the impeachment inquiry hearing against Joe Biden, where their own witnesses conceded that there was no justification to be there,

to just days ago when Kevin McCarthy, who became speaker under the most humiliating of circumstances,

was stripped of that position in a way that was equally if not more humiliating.

Let's be clear, this is all very much a function of the disinformation machine that powers right wing media,

and that serves as a North Star for far right house freedom caucus members.

But it does nothing for the majority of Republicans, or I guess I should say the minority of Republicans who still claim to be moderate.

And so the question really becomes, why are Republicans allowing this to happen?

Why are they pandering to the extremists within their own ranks by allowing this failure theater, Matt Gase's own words when it just hangs the rest of the party out to dry?

And the answer is that the priority on the right has shifted to winning primaries.

How does Republicans know that if they don't cow-towze the farthest right fringes of their base, that they will be primaryed?

And so rather than having a spine and speaking out, they defer to keeping their own jobs, meaning that they tack right to avoid being primaryed by, you know, the next Marjotel Green or Lauren Bobert.

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