McCarthy installed as Speaker with overtones of 'No Confidence'

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January 6, 2023 culminated one battle between a small core of constitutionalists and the entrenched congressional establishment on the anniversary of a million unarmed Americans rallying in D.C., whom corporatist media and political adversaries branded "insurrectionists." Pressure cooker politics were played out on national television as the "strong six" were inappropriately maligned as "terrorists" by their own party members. It was a dramatic display of what the representational process is supposed to include – debate and the willingness to stand on one’s principles, which has become a rare occurrence in the Capitol. The legislative process is meant to be exhibited in full view, messy and confrontational at times. Authoritarians negotiating behind closed doors who then force their unvetted, secretive decisions on the body, stripping members of their representational role, is not what the founders intended.