This idea has been floated before but three things are different now from when it was first suggested last spring. This in part from hotair.com.
1. After Glenn Youngkin’s win in Virginia and the latest round of gruesome polling for Democrats, a GOP House takeover next fall looks like a mortal lock. Possibly with a huge majority.
3. Trump has reportedly nurtured the idea that he may be reinstated as president before 2024. Becoming Speaker would give him a path to that, hypothetically at least.
Here’s the Meadows clip that’s circulating:
Trump's former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows floats the bizarre idea that Trump should be Speaker of the House to own the libs:
"You talk about melting down…people would go crazy!" pic.twitter.com/bT1XEs2EqK
— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) November 18, 2021
But would there be anywhere near 67 votes in the Senate to remove Biden and Harris, even if Republicans win every contested seat next fall?
Perhaps not, but Meadows sure is enthusiastic about the idea of seeing Trump as Speaker.
Hear me out. What if Trump wants full control over the House caucus but doesn’t want to have to waste hours a day doing the hard work of legislating, wrangling votes, scheduling committee hearings, and so on?
But what if he could deputize a hardcore loyalist to be Speaker instead? Someone who’d been in Congress before, perhaps, and who knew the way the House operated. Someone who would carry out his wishes unquestioningly, punishing dissenters and rewarding sycophants in the caucus as needed?
Is there anyone like that in Trump’s inner circle right now?
Well … Mark Meadows fits the bill, I suppose. Former Freedom Caucus chairman, former Trump chief of staff, former and possibly current Birther. A guy who’s well acquainted with all the major players in the Republican caucus, especially on the MAGA side. Why, he’d be just what Trump is looking for as a viceroy to rule over the House. As the man himself reminded us in the first clip above, you don’t need to be a sitting member of Congress to be Speaker. Hmmmmm.
Is McCarthy worried about being replaced by Meadows.
.@GOPLeader McCarthy says at his weekly presser that if Republicans win back the House, he plans to reinstate Gosar & Greene on committees — potentially even “better” ones — and hints that a Republican majority may kick some Dems off their seats.
— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) November 18, 2021
McCarthy’s hearing footsteps. Perhaps he deserves to.
Not a snowball’s chance in hell of this coming to pass, right? Maybe not, but stranger things have happened. And the entire concept is more appealing than democrat misleadership until 2024.
God speed President Trump.
