News of the day: slim majorities in a legislature are hard to work with because it gives fringe members of the majority party more power. This has been demonst

News of the day: slim majorities in a legislature are hard to work with because it gives fringe members of the majority party more power. This has been demonstrated with Sinema and Manchin on the Democratic side. Now we are seeing it on the Republican side. It's also been seen in pretty much every coalition government that has ever been negotiated in a parliamentary system. Israel and Spain make Americans look like amateurs at this kind of intra-party stunt. If the Republican party had won like 5 more seats, in a body with over 400 members, this never would have happened. In the UK, the people who resisted the leader would have been expelled from the party. Here in the US, if you call yourself a Republican nobody has legal standing to say you aren't one. This really isn't that interesting, other than as a general observation about how having a slim majority makes parties weak. Also, there was no other plausible candidate. Every other potential contender would have faced a much harder, and longer, election process. The most obvious result is the one we got, even though it gave the talking heads on the TV news something to talk about for several days. What other outcome was possible?