American politics clocked up another first this week when members of the lower chamber sacked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. It’s an event that will reverberate way beyond Capitol Hill.
A fractious and dysfunctional Congress adds to the mayhem in the run-up to the US presidential and congressional elections in November next year. It also makes it less likely the world’s greatest democracy will steer some time soon to a safe mooring between an overly hawkish approach hell-bent on antagonising China and an isolationist force that abandons Ukraine.
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