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    1 year ago

    I understand what you say, but in this particular instance I’d like to live with the view that both semantics holds, due to the following criterion on my side.

    The perception by some newspaper I read outside the US was that Gaetz & co. was a small minority rightwing and everybody didn’t want to play his childish game.

    You say it was predictable that Dems would vote against a Republican Speaker, and that indeed turned out to be the case. However, at the same time Dems essentially voted together with Gaetz and that was a bit surprising to me and that newspaper.