When if ever, has the speaker not been a member of the house? There is no non-member with the gravitas to be speaker at the moment. If Democrats were in control and in this situation, I could see them recruiting Obama. But among Republicans, there is no one that would have near universal support and welcome.
'Among Republicans' = there is no such thing because the 'enemy' has infiltrated the party with provocateurs to make it a totally ineffectual political body.
I have been posting for at least 6 years that the present Republican Party is just the old Whig Party from which they derived -- AND, like the Whigs, it is time for someone dynamic like Donald Trump {for the Whigs it was Abraham Lincoln} to make it the MAGA Party or whatever. Time to clean all the fellow travelers out of the GOP and make it a 'populist' political party - which Trump has already started doing!
Kash Patel would be a good agent for change. Right now Mike Johnson has pretty much turned over the power of the Speaker's chair to the Dems. He claims that he got a 'top' briefing from the intel community and they advised him that this is the only way - what he has done. Good grief ⤵🚮 Kash Patel has been there, he would know how to deal with such advice. He would know how to push impeachment through the House. He would know how to make deals with people whose political philosophy is Our way or the highway, which is exactly what has been happening for the past three + years... AND it has worked, because there are no solid GOP guiding principles.
NOTE how monolithic the Dem Party is; you vote for the party or you are out! Since they have all the money a political party could ever dream of {by corruption} they are very persuasive!
Thus spake the Ireland 😌
Hillary won all her elections until 2016. In one of the senate primaries she was on the ballot 3 times because she was in 3 parties. But maybe they won't vote Johnson out yet.