Kevin McCarthy is supposed to sit in a position of power over Republicans in the United States House of Representatives. As House Minority Leader, McCarthy is in charge of the intensely fractured, ever-bickering GOP members like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Louie Gohmert, and Paul Gosar. More sober-minded Republicans in the House have had enough of McCarthy’s pandering to Trump and the Trump-fanatic members of their own party, and one of them is speaking out about it.
After being censured by the party that decries “cancel culture” for sticking to his own beliefs instead of following along the party line, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday morning to call out McCarthy for his utter lack of leadership and his bowing to the Trump-crazed mob in Congress.
‘Kevin McCarthy…just went after Liz and I, goes to show he is the weakest leader that has ever, frankly, existed in that position. So I think every member of the media, every citizen, every person out there needs to pin down every Republican and say do you side with what the RNC did or do you condemn what they did and don’t let them — trust me, politicians are really good at skirting around that answer. Don’t let them on this one. It’s so defining.’
McCarthy has recently come under fire for a series of news stories that show his ever-fluctuating leadership and loyalty: he first condemned Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 attack before going to meet with the former president at Mar-a-Lago, after which he mysteriously got a sizable donation from one of Trump’s PACs to McCarthy’s own nonprofit organization. Magically, McCarthy’s condemnation turned into praise for the former president and criticism and threats toward any Republican who stuck to his guns following Jan. 6 and consistently delivered a message that Trump was criminally wrong to have incited the attack on the Capitol.
Twitter was talking about Kinzinger, McCarthy, and the GOP. Read some of their comments below:
