“...going along with a ridiculous notion that any member of the conference could, at any time, launch a motion to vacate the chair. “
McCarthy went along with it in order to get the Speaker’s Chair.
It just shows he does whatever is easiest in the short term regardless of the long term consequences.
Thank you. You understand him perfectly.
He should have refused to go along with it on the basis of the harm it could do to the institution and the problematic issues that could arise for the country as a whole. There is no way he should have gone along with such a risky notion.
But he did, and in so doing put himself above the interests of the institution and country. His election was all that mattered to him.