There are multiple 'games' being played. The article is about the game within the Republican party, between leadership and the Freedom Caucus. The Democrats a

There are multiple 'games' being played. The article is about the game within the Republican party, between leadership and the Freedom Caucus. The Democrats are playing a different game with the Republican leadership, which isn't the core focus of this article. In the game between Democrats and Republican leadership, McCarthy promised to work with the Democrats on several issues and then back tracked multiple times. McCarthy then assumed that the Democrats would simply support him since the alternative was the chaos we have now. Democrats intentionally adopted tit-for-tat, and 'went low', which is why McCarthy is now no longer speaker. By playing hardball, the Democrats have increased the chances that the next speaker will be a moderate willing to have some semblance of bipartisanship. This is a longer video but here AOC gets into the politics a bit more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahEgoH8UfLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahEgoH8UfLU