{"id":2184409,"date":"2024-02-22T20:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T01:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-gops-governing-crisis-house-chaos-is-just-the-beginning\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T20:36:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T01:36:31","slug":"the-gops-governing-crisis-house-chaos-is-just-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-gops-governing-crisis-house-chaos-is-just-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP in turmoil: House chaos marks the start of a larger crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-gops-governing-crisis-house-chaos-is-just-the-beginning%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2184409&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Death, Taxes, and the Decline of Republican Governance<\/h2>\n<p>Nothing\u200b is more certain in life than\u200d death and taxes, but the success of a House rules \u2062vote was once a close \u2064third. This is a key procedural maneuver setting \u200bup debate on legislation in a congressional chamber where the\u200c majority party, and usually the speaker, historically \u2062has\u2063 substantial control over the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Revise that to \u200d\u201chad substantial control.\u201d Before the current Congress, a House rules vote hadn\u2019t failed in two decades. There have been six such failures under the current\u200c Republican majority, setting a modern record.<\/p>\n<p>One analysis found that House Republicans had the \u2063lowest success rate on party unity votes of any\u200b majority party in more than 40 years. \u2062This describes roll calls on bills, amendments, and resolutions \u200bthat break down along party lines.<\/p>\n<p>The only majority with\u200b a lower success rate, CQ\u200c Roll \u2063Call found,\u2062 was in \u20641982. That\u2019s when a\u2064 bloc\u200b of mostly Southern Democrats defected to help a larger-than-usual Republican minority pass elements of President Ronald Reagan\u2019s legislative agenda, \u2064forming a bipartisan conservative majority \u2064on some topics despite liberal Tip O\u2019Neill maintaining his grasp on the speaker\u2019s gavel.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans now hold the speakership but have a less functional \u200dconservative majority than when O\u2019Neill tried and failed to stop the Reagan tax cuts. It is hard to \u200cimagine the\u200d current \u200cGOP majority\u2062 passing anything of that caliber.<\/p>\n<h3>House Republicans\u200b Struggle to Elect a Speaker<\/h3>\n<p>House Republicans can barely elect a speaker. It took 14 ballots to\u200b install then-Rep. Kevin McCarthy in the top\u2063 job at\u200b the\u200d beginning of \u200bthe \u200bnew GOP House majority at the beginning of last year. The\u2064 California Republican lasted only until October and is no \u2062longer even a member of Congress. McCarthy was the \u200bfirst speaker ever removed, and it was only the second time such a\u200c floor vote was even attempted after House Speaker Joseph \u200cCannon, for whom the Cannon Office Building is named, quelled the rebellion in 1910.<\/p>\n<p>It then took three weeks for Republicans to settle on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as McCarthy\u2019s replacement. Three previous candidates nominated by the Republican conference, including two \u200ccurrent members of the GOP leadership team and a committee chairman who is also a founding member\u200d of the Freedom Caucus, failed to win the \u200cnecessary support to become speaker.<\/p>\n<p>By February, \u2062at least one Republican\u200c lawmaker had\u2062 publicly\u200d floated\u2064 ousting Johnson as speaker if he brought Ukraine aid to \u200bthe floor. This led to a \u200bcentrist Democrat gauging \u2062colleagues\u2019 support for a change to the rules to make this more difficult after his party left McCarthy to twist in \u2062the wind last\u2062 year. (It is not clear at this writing whether Democrats will ride to Johnson\u2019s rescue.)<\/p>\n<p>The disarray has seasoned\u2062 lawmakers streaming toward the exits. Four \u2063House committee chairpeople will\u2062 not be seeking reelection this \u2063year. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), the chairman of the House Select\u200d Committee on China, was viewed as an up-and-comer. He had already spurned GOP\u200c entreaties to \u200dchallenge Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) in a bid to retake the upper chamber \u2063majority. Now, the 39-year-old Iraq War veteran is leaving \u2063Capitol Hill altogether, saying, \u201cThe Framers intended citizens to \u2062serve in Congress for a season and\u200b then return to their \u200dprivate lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some House members are leaving to run for\u200c Senate. But we have also seen Republicans depart both houses of Congress to become\u200b university \u2063presidents. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers\u2019s (R-WA) statement about serving\u2063 \u201cin new ways\u201d and signing off\u200d with \u201cThe best is yet to come\u201d\u2063 sounded more like someone who lost an election than the \u200bsitting House Energy and Commerce chairwoman.<\/p>\n<p>Others \u2062are\u200b more direct. Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), \u2063chairman\u200c of the Committee\u200b on Homeland Security, announced that he was leaving Congress after his colleagues \u200dstruggled to find the votes to impeach Homeland Security \u2063Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. \u201cOur\u2064 country \u2014 and our Congress \u2014 is broken beyond most means of repair,\u201d Green said\u2064 in a \u2064statement. \u201cI have come to realize our fight is not here within Washington, \u200bour fight is with Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Cycle of \u200dRepublican\u2063 Frustration<\/h3>\n<p>It is a vicious cycle. Republicans make campaign promises to grassroots voters, then fail to keep them. The electoral consequences include\u200d increasingly exacting primary challenges, leadership fights, \u200dand general election defeats that further deplete the ranks of Republicans in Congress and further diminish the party\u2019s ability to deliver for its voters. Rinse and repeat.<\/p>\n<p>While the House is the most obvious example of this dysfunction, \u200cit is not the only one. Senate\u200c Minority Leader Mitch \u2063McConnell (R-KY) is slowly seeing his\u200c power over\u200c the Republican \u200bconference ebb as a new generation of senators tests party discipline\u200b in the last redoubt \u200cof the \u200bGOP\u2063 establishment.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell is \u2064arguably the most conservative Senate Republican leader since Robert\u2062 Taft. But he does not represent\u200d the more populist strain of conservatism\u2063 that is ascendant right now, \u2064and his involvement in primary contests has \u200bput him \u200cin competition with\u2062 conservative groups dating\u2064 back at least to the Tea \u200bParty over a decade ago. All of this has left\u200c McConnell, long \u2063celebrated as one of the GOP\u2019s most skillful legislative tacticians, deeply disliked by all sides and one \u2064of the least popular national elected leaders.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, the \u200btitular\u2064 head of the\u2062 Republican Party remains former President Donald Trump, who is poised to clinch the nomination for the third straight election cycle. His last remaining major opponent, former U.S. Ambassador to the \u200bUnited Nations Nikki Haley,\u200c has tried\u200c to \u200cbrand him as a chaotic mess who violates political norms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is in\u200b court today. There will be a verdict on another case\u200b tomorrow. And he has\u200c a \u200dtrial starting March \u206425. Meanwhile, he\u2019s spending millions of campaign donations on\u200c legal fees,\u201d \u2063Haley posted on X. \u201cAll of\u200d this chaos\u200d will only \u2064lead to more losses for Republicans up and down the ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This\u2064 has\u2064 been a long-running theme. \u2064\u201cI agree with a\u200d lot of his policies, but the truth is, rightly or wrongly, chaos \u200dfollows him,\u201d \u200cHaley told a crowd in \u2063South Carolina last year. \u201cWe have too much\u2063 division in this country and too many threats\u2062 around the world to be sitting in chaos once again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Trump\u2019s intraparty foes have been brandishing the \u201cchaos\u201d label against him for \u200deight\u200d years to little \u2063obvious effect. Jeb Bush dubbed Trump\u200b the \u201cchaos candidate\u201d almost from the beginning. Trump is currently favored by 75% of GOP voters \u2062nationally, according to the RealClearPolitics polling \u200baverage.<\/p>\n<p>None of this happened overnight, however. Every recent Republican House speaker dating back to Newt Gingrich, leader of the 1994 revolution that ushered in the first GOP majority in the lower chamber in 40 years, has tangled with the conservatives who \u2062helped bring them to power. Nearly all of them surrendered their gavels rather than keep fighting the rebels. The sole exception\u2064 was Dennis Hastert, who went to prison for bank fraud \u2062related to sexual abuse that \u2062long \u200cpredated his speakership.<\/p>\n<p>Former House Speaker Paul Ryan was a movement conservative favorite. His plans for entitlement reform were thought to \u2063be the GOP blueprint for restored fiscal discipline. Ryan was also the party\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-backed-bail-fund-freed-alleged-domestic-abuser-now-accused-of-murder\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris-Backed Bail Fund Freed Alleged Domestic Abuser Now Accused Of Murder\">vice presidential nominee<\/a> in 2012. Those plans now lay in tatters.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan\u2019s running mate, Mitt Romney, was \u200cperhaps the last gasp \u200dof the Republican establishment\u2019s power over the \u2062party\u2019s presidential nominating process.\u2062 But\u2062 each Republican nominee dating back to then-President George H.W. Bush in 1992 received a \u2063warning shot from an anti-establishment challenger before winning\u200d the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Romney had\u200c several. At various points, Herman Cain, Rick \u200bPerry, Rick Santorum, and Michele Bachmann all threatened him in state \u2064and national polls. Santorum narrowly beat \u200bRomney in \u2062Iowa. Perry was governor of Texas\u200b and Santorum a recent former Pennsylvania senator at the time. But\u200c Cain was \u200da pizza mogul and Bachmann a niche member of the House.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump announced for the presidency \u2063in 2015, the warnings were over. Many Republicans concluded that \u200dthe lesson from Romney was that nice guys \u200dfinish\u2064 last. And Republicans finally gave the nomination to an insurgent of sorts, dethroning the party\u2019s \u2064governing class. Primary voters haven\u2019t looked back since. Romney is\u2063 retiring after a single term as a senator from Utah, vocally disillusioned \u2064with his party and the national \u200bpolitical climate.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, a similar dynamic was \u2062playing out in Congress. Frustrated \u200cby leaders \u2064they never thought delivered, Republicans did two things: They tried to purify the Republican members through the primary process and influence legislative outcomes by withholding their support from leadership\u2062 on close votes.<\/p>\n<p>Then Sen. \u200dJim DeMint, a South Carolina\u2064 Republican who spearheaded the Senate Conservatives Fund \u200dbefore a short stint as\u2062 president of the Heritage Foundation,\u200b decided the size of the GOP caucus\u2063 mattered less\u200c than its \u2062commitment. \u201cI decided my work could no longer be with other senators,\u201d he wrote in his memoirs. \u201cI would have to find ways\u200c to \u200dwork\u2063 with\u2062 the American people \u200dto elect a new class of senators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeMint\u2019s\u2064 outfit fought for \u200cthe nomination of hard Right Senate candidates in\u200b Republican primaries, even, and sometimes especially, \u200bwhen this meant going against the rest of \u2062the party apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been \u200bcriticized by some of my Republican colleagues for saying I\u2019d rather have 30 Republicans \u2063in the Senate\u200b who believe in the principles of freedom \u2062than 60 who don\u2019t believe in anything,\u201d \u200bDeMint \u200dtold the Conservative Political \u200cAction\u200c Conference in 2010. \u201cLet me\u200d make \u200bmyself even clearer: I\u2019d rather\u2062 have 30 Marco Rubios\u2064 in the Senate than 60 Arlen Specters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many Republicans agreed. But\u2064 while Republicans \u2063gained 63 seats in the House \u2063in what proved to be a true red wave election that November, winning a majority, the party failed to take over the Senate for \u2063another four years. Some of the primary winners flubbed their general elections.<\/p>\n<p>In the House, conservatives from safe red districts banded together to push the Republican conference to the right\u2064 from within. They reserved the right to tank bills that they opposed. The most disciplined such group, the Freedom Caucus, was founded on Jan. 26, 2015. By Sept.\u200c 25, they had claimed their first Republican speaker\u2019s scalp\u200d with the resignation \u2063of John Boehner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s become clear to me \u200cthat \u200cthis prolonged leadership turmoil would\u2063 do irreparable harm \u2062to the institution,\u201d Boehner told \u2062reporters at the time. \u201cThis isn\u2019t about me. It\u2019s about \u2062the people. It\u2019s about\u200c the institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing wrong with any of this in principle. Republican leaders often found\u2063 themselves\u2062 at war with the party\u2019s voters on\u2064 topics such as immigration. Federal \u2064spending and deficits often ballooned when\u200b Republicans controlled\u2064 both the \u2064White House and\u2064 Congress, leading the\u200c Right to \u200cconclude that it did not have much to show for\u200b these majorities.\u2064 A leadership vacuum grew inside the GOP. \u200dTrump was among the flawed and \u2064unconventional figures who\u200b sought to fill it.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, some of these developments have accentuated the \u200bcycle of Republican frustration they were \u2063meant to alleviate. Republicans\u2064 seldom had the majorities big enough to enact or sustain\u2064 the sweeping changes their members and supporters farther to the right demanded.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Republicans hold a bare two-seat \u2064majority in the House, while Democrats control the White House and Senate. It is exceedingly difficult to govern under those \u200bcircumstances. And any Republican defection, from the right or the left,\u2063 can \u2063blow \u2064up anything \u2064that can\u2019t attract\u200c compensatory \u200dDemocratic support.<\/p>\n<p>Given that \u2064math, it is far more surprising that McCarthy was able to deliver deals avoiding a default on \u2064the debt and a\u200c government shutdown than that the details \u2062of those deals would\u2062 fall far short of what the Right wants.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy\u200c made his already arduous path even \u200cmore \u2062difficult when he agreed to a\u200b lower \u2062threshold\u2064 for\u2062 initiating the process of removing the speaker. While that may have seemed necessary at the time to break\u2062 the\u200d dozen-ballot deadlock for the gavel, it ended up being a devil\u2019s bargain. \u2062Johnson could be the\u200c next victim.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership has tried to take \u2062the reins through the abandonment of regular order. There is a history of up-and-down votes on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-republicans-sign-letter-opposing-mccarthys-bid-for-speaker\/\" title=\"9 Republicans Sign Letter Opposing McCarthy\u2019s Bid for Speaker\">massive omnibus spending bills<\/a>, decorated like Christmas trees with wasteful items, with minimal time to debate, amend, or even read the final product. \u200bThis has only further emboldened the revolt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery\u200c member of Congress should have a full five days, at a\u200d minimum, to review any piece of legislation,\u201d wrote \u200bJustin Amash,\u2062 the former Michigan Libertarian congressman who is now mulling \u200ba Senate run. \u201cIf even one word or punctuation mark changes during that time, the clock restarts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The marginalization of individual lawmakers in the\u2062 legislative process has also incentivized\u2062 bad behavior. If House lawmakers don\u2019t have much\u2064 power to shape bills, there are other ways\u200c to look successful to their constituents: by becoming\u200c cable news or \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-donald-trumps-aug-21-rally-in-alabama\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show Donald Trump\u2019s Aug. 21 Rally In Alabama?\">social media personalities<\/a> while in office. This \u200balso helps them build national fundraising bases, which \u200cfurther empowers them to disregard \u2063leaders \u2063they no longer need for infusions of\u200d campaign cash.<\/p>\n<p>While \u201cthe Squad\u201d\u2062 may object to \u2062a Democratic spending bill\u2062 for not going far enough, they will rarely defeat it\u200d on the floor because, as believers in the\u200b efficacy \u200bof \u200cactivist government, they prefer something \u2063to nothing. Freedom Caucus\u200d members are far more skeptical of\u200b what the government can do \u200dfor their voters and, therefore, are more inclined to take nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans \u200dalso sometimes lack \u2064sufficient popular \u2062support\u200b for their\u2063 priorities. After seven years of failure to coalesce around an alternative to Obamacare, for example, \u2063public opinion had turned against repeal by the\u200c time Republicans \u200dhad the\u2062 opportunity to do so via unified control of the \u200bfederal government. When \u2063Roe v. \u2063Wade finally fell after a \u200dhalf-century of labor, the electorate was completely unprepared for a meaningful shift in abortion policy \u2014 and so was the GOP. The party and country\u200b are\u2062 equally ill-prepared to confront \u200dthe looming entitlements crisis, having done nothing to lay the groundwork for \u2062necessary reforms and increasingly \u2063running away \u200cfrom them.<\/p>\n<p>To lead and legislate in a democratic republic requires winning elections and sustaining \u200cpublic support. On\u2063 some of the biggest topics of the time,\u2064 Republicans have not done this work.<\/p>\n<p>All of this would be hard enough to resolve on\u200d its own. But Republicans are also now divided even on some basic questions that once united them: America\u2019s role in the world, the size and scope of the federal government, and religion\u2019s \u200bplace in the public \u2063square. With razor-thin majorities, small groups of dissenters can have an outsize\u2063 influence.<\/p>\n<p>Only\u200b two things have saved Republicans from electoral disaster: political polarization\u2064 and the Democrats\u2019 own extremism. One could read the above litany of Republican failure and \u2062conclude Democrats\u2064 are in store for big wins come November \u2014 and they might \u2064be. But\u200b the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-goes-first-a-fortnight-from-americas-first-primary-day-what-to-look-for-in-lone-star-state\/\" title=\"Texas Goes First: A Fortnight from America\u2019s First Primary Day, What to Look for in Lone Star State\">public polling suggests<\/a> that it is equally possible Republicans \u2063win the presidency and both houses of Congress despite this track record.<\/p>\n<p>Recent national\u200c elections have been competitive, including 2020, when Republicans actually gained House seats as\u2063 Trump\u200b lost the White House, and last year\u2019s elections. Every presidential election since 2000 has been close, except for 2008, and even then, Barack Obama \u2064won less than 53% of the popular vote.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans were shut out \u2064of the presidency for 20 years after the Great Depression but won it eight years after the 2008 financial crisis. George H.W. Bush lost 16 percentage\u2063 points between 1988 and 1992 due to a mild recession that was over for more than a year before Election Day.\u200c The pandemic and inflation running at a 41-year high each \u200dcaused far smaller\u2063 electoral shifts.<\/p>\n<p>There are no easy solutions to any of these problems. But step one would seem to be to restore regular order to the House, where it\u2064 is sorely needed. If House \u200dRepublicans are lucky\u200b enough to retain their majority \u200cthis year, they will also need to end the revolving door to the \u200dspeaker\u2019s chamber.<\/p>\n<p>An air of reality needs to return \u2064to Republican promise-making\u200d and\u200c -keeping. No more confident assurances that Democratic \u200dpresidents can be\u2063 forced to sign bills repealing their signature legislative achievements.<\/p>\n<p>This will be hard to do \u2063as long as Republicans \u2064face a legitimacy crisis with \u2064their own voters. The one exception, Trump, appears to be the least interested in actual\u2063 governance. But\u2063 one way or another, \u2063generational change is coming\u200c to the party\u2019s leadership class. Someone with longer \u2062time horizons than this November may, at some point, conclude there is political upside to Republicans resolving their intractable problems before Democrats begin to figure\u2062 out theirs.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party has a governing problem. The\u200d first step is to admit it.<\/p>\n<p>W. James Antle III is executive editor\u2062 of the Washington Examiner magazine.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How has\u2064 the failure\u2063 to deliver on campaign promises influenced the frustration among Republican voters and the\u2064 party&#8217;s ability \u200cto govern effectively<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ible that\u2062 voters are growing weary of the dysfunction\u200c and chaos within the Republican Party. While polarization has allowed Republicans to hold on to their base, it has also\u2062 turned \u2064off many independent and moderate voters who are looking \u200bfor effective governance.<\/p>\n<p>The decline of Republican governance can\u2062 be traced back to a number \u2063of\u200d factors. Leadership struggles \u200dwithin the party have made \u2063it\u200c difficult for Republicans\u200b to elect a speaker and unite behind a common agenda. The rise \u200bof\u2064 conservative \u2063grassroots movements, such as \u200cthe Freedom Caucus, has also created\u2063 divisions within the \u200dparty and \u200bmade it\u2063 harder for\u2064 Republicans to\u200b pass legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Republicans have struggled to deliver on\u200d their campaign promises,\u200d leading to frustration among their \u2062voters. This has resulted in\u2062 more primary\u200b challenges, \u200dleadership fights, and general election defeats, further weakening the party&#8217;s ability\u200b to govern.<\/p>\n<p>In the Senate,\u200d Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is facing a\u200d similar challenge. While he is a conservative leader, he\u2062 does not represent \u200cthe more populist strain of conservatism that is currently on the rise.\u200b His involvement in primary contests \u200dhas put\u200c him in competition\u2063 with conservative groups, and his power within the party is slowly diminishing.<\/p>\n<p>At the same\u2062 time, former \u200cPresident Donald Trump remains\u200d the titular \u200bhead of the Republican Party. \u2062Despite being branded as chaotic and violating political\u2063 norms,\u2063 Trump continues to \u200bhold significant support among GOP voters. His \u200bopponents within the\u2062 party have\u2063 been unable to effectively challenge him, leading to a\u200d lack of clear leadership and direction.<\/p>\n<p>The decline of Republican governance\u2062 is not a recent phenomenon. Every\u200b Republican House speaker dating back to Newt \u2062Gingrich has faced challenges\u200d from conservatives within their\u2063 own party. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, \u2063once \u200ba conservative favorite, saw his plans for entitlement reform crumble and eventually retired\u200d disillusioned with the party.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican establishment&#8217;s power \u2064over\u200b the party&#8217;s presidential nominating process has also been eroding. \u2063Recent Republican nominees, such as Mitt Romney, have faced\u2064 challenges from \u200danti-establishment figures within the party. This has further fueled the rise \u200bof \u2063insurgent candidates, like \u2063Donald Trump, who tapped into the frustrations of Republican voters.<\/p>\n<p>In Congress, frustrated conservatives \u2064have tried to push the party to\u200b the right through primary challenges\u200c and by withholding support from \u200dleadership. While this was meant to alleviate their frustrations, it has only accentuated the cycle of Republican discontent. The marginalization \u2063of individual lawmakers and the abandonment of regular order has\u2062 incentivized bad\u200c behavior and\u2064 hindered\u200b effective governance.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the \u200ddecline of Republican governance is a result \u2064of a combination of factors, including \u200bleadership struggles, failure to deliver \u2062on campaign promises, \u200ddivisions within the party, and the rise of anti-establishment \u200dfigures. This has \u200cled\u2064 to frustration \u2062among Republican voters and a lack of \u2063effective leadership and governance. Whether the party can reverse this decline remains to be seen, \u2064but it will require a reevaluation of its priorities and\u200b a return\u2064 to principles of effective governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death, taxes, and the success of a House rules vote were once equally certain. 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