“Ironically, this would tend to absolve Gaetz and the other 7 conservative ‘disrupters’....”
Who cares about absolution?
Vindication and absolution are touchy-feely terms that don’t diminish the damage the 8 dissidents did to the caucus. Once they established that a miniscule fragment of the party can wreak havoc it gave license to all the other attention freaks to trash the will of the majority.
The point is that you are a hypocrite if you call out Gaetz and not this handful of RINOs blocking Jorden.