—”Gaetz, a lowly backbencher”
That much is correct.
Does Gaetz lead any sizeable faction beyond his gang of 8?
The gang of 8 mostly have run off to their hideout, not pressing for a new pure conservative speaker.
Now that the Dems and MSM have what they want, he is gone, perhaps they can use him for another exploit at a later date.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron
I would say Gaetz just tricked the Demonrats into dumping their own RINO puppet Speaker. Why aren’t you celebrating ? Kevin was a dunce. Another Derp State apparatchik. Gaetz has apparently endorsed Jim Jordan.
If you think getting rid of McCarthy is “treasonous”, you’re no Conservative. That’s the talking point of the media loons.
One of the 8 was Nancy Mace, who supported McCarthy in January and has a very RINO voting record.