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  Going on with Arizona, several things could've happened if RCV were around there in the midterms. For senator, they could've had Jim Lamon instead of Blake Masters, Karrin Taylor-Robson for governor and not Kari Lake, Beau Lane instead of Mark Finchem for secretary of state, and Andrew Gould for attorney general and not Abraham Hamadeh.
context: Once again, GOP strategy hinges on the growing question of what the GOP actually wants to be - the moderate wing versus the radical wing. RCV is good for the moderate faction and limits the radicals, but whether that's good strategy for the party overall is a different question. 
  Honestly, in my view, it's too early to call. Trump has won one election and lost another, whether his brand of nationalism is sustainable long-term is still up in the air. Maybe the right-leaning portion of the electorate is done with Bush-like moderation and will commit to a hardline stance through successors like DeSantis, maybe Trumpism will prove to be a flash in the pan. We just don't know, and we won't for a few more election cycles where the new rightist philosophy can have its' mettle better tested.
  2024 is going to decide the GOP's fate for the next decade at least - not really in actually challenging Biden, but in choosing their challenger. These will be the most important GOP primaries since Reagan. >
  
  I think the fight for the Majority Speaker already answered that question: the lunatics have taken over the asylum. >
  
  It's worth noting that of 222 Republican representatives, only 20 were the lunatics (or at least so lunatic that they opposed McCarthy) - if you could draw a 1:1 between House makeup and electoral makeup (you can't), that would mean over 90% of Republicans aren't lunatics. 
  Of course, even "consensus Republican" Kevin McCarthy is not a moderate - he is staunchly opposed to LGBT rights, abortion access, climate legislation, and even kind of sort of supported January 6 (after he got in trouble for not supporting it.) He's just not all-in on the Trump Train. >
  
  A majority of the House Republican caucus voted to reject the 2020 election results. Almost all of them were re-elected. The 20 or so folks fighting against McCarthy are not the only lunatics in the party. They're just one flavor of lunatic. >
  
  
  They're just one flavor of lunatic.
  
  The honest ones who say what they mean.  All republicans were going to send us into a debt ceiling crisis.  These are the ones who bothered to come up with a plan before hand.  Even if that plan is patently evil.