Begging the obvious, but it is McCarthy who is decidedly not a conservative.
To understand Gaetz's complaint about McCarthy, here is Thatcher in her memoirs on her own Conservative Party, a description that certainly applies today to Kevin McCarthy.
The accuracy of the complaint was all too evident in McCarthy's post-Speaker election press conference.
Time after time he spoke about how important it was for him to "Govern." And, in practice, "Governing" in McCarthy's terms meant governing by socialist ratchet.
As my colleague Dan Flynn has noted: Rather than reverse the multidecade trend that led to budgets exceeding $6 trillion, McCarthy twice partnered with Democrats to prevent a government shutdown and protect the other party's spending priorities.
Last December, McCarthy passed the bloated $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill - a classic socialist ratchet.
The McCarthy response to just those two ideas is exactly the socialist ratchet in action.
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