The question is what will the RINOs do when McCarthy doesn’t have the votes from his caucus to be elected Speaker of the House? They can either rally behind a MAGA candidate for Speaker like Gaetz, or expose themselves as Uniparty moles and join with the Dems to elect an anti-MAGA Republican. Let them expose themselves. It’s better to have their loyalty out in the open rather than let them hide under a rock only to bite us later when their votes are needed.
The RINOs will not elect a Republican alternative to McCarthy.
They will elect Hakeem Jeffries to prove they are not ice people, and that they love sun people.
There is a third option, which is to rally around an “outsider” who isn’t tainted with being part of the swamp but isn’t die hard MAGA. I think that is more likely than a Dem speaker, but less likely than Dems helping out McCarthy.