Hat’s Off to Matt Gaetz

October 05, 2023

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts PaulCraigRoberts.org

Hat’s off to Matt Gaetz. He has held the Republican Establishment accountable and removed their man from his position as Speaker of the House. Whatever the downside of Gaetz’s achievement, Gaetz’s victory is a victory for us.

Forever it seems, the Republicans have talked the talk but haven’t walked the walk. They align their talk with our concerns about what our children are taught and not taught, about the safety of our streets, about “affirmative action,” about the offshoring of our manufacturing jobs, about living standards, about government’s fiscal irresponsibility, about aggressive foreign policy, but they lack the courage to do anything. Instead, they align their walk with the teachers’ unions, with the offshoring corporations, with the military/security complex on gratuitous wars that serve only armaments profits, and with aggressive neoconservative foreign policy that threatens nuclear war.

Gaetz said “enough,” and for the first time in history a Speaker has been removed from office.