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Hello, and welcome back to Tomorrow Will Be Worse. This Wednesday, as every Wednesday, I’m pleased to bring you the work of my MAGA-whispering colleague, Tina Nguyen.
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Hello, and welcome back to the last installment of Tomorrow Will Be Worse before it becomes a part of The Best & The Brightest. Some of you out there seem to have misunderstood the branding, thinking that we—Tara Palmeri, Tina Nguyen, and I—are flattering ourselves (come, now) rather than alluding to David Halberstam’s withering assessment of the Washington establishment.

Today’s dispatch from Tina, who is actually and unironically among the best and the brightest, is a fascinating dive into the world of the #NeverKevins. Her reporting indicates that there are far more of them hiding in the Republican conference than meets the eye, which, to me, is just so delicious. All Kevin McCarthy wanted for Christmas—in fact, all he ever wanted—was to be Speaker of the House. It’s why...

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It appears there will be no holiday reprieve for Kevin McCarthy in his increasingly frustrated endeavor to get himself elected Speaker of the House, raising the odds for a chaotic floor battle when a new Congress convenes on January 3. Earlier this week, an aggrieved McCarthy went on the offensive by compiling a list of 54 supporters who have declared themselves “Kevin Only,” including Marjorie Taylor Greene, in an attempt to break the resistance of the five or so #NeverKevin holdouts that are effectively blocking his bid. Instead, it appears to have had the opposite of the intended effect.

Hours after providing the list to Axios, Rep. Matt Gaetz, the loudest of the McCarthy holdouts, took the stage at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest to fully double down. “I take no joy in sharing this with you but I’m going to tell you now what every single Republican member...

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