America’s Dysfunctional Politics Underlines the Difficulties for the Secular Establishment
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After successive rounds of voting to get the Republican Kevin McCarthy to become speaker of the US House of Representatives, 20 hardline Republican doggedly remain opposed to his bid. The tussle in the Republican Party has brought Washington to a standstill and the situation bears all the hallmarks of the worst constitutional crisis for over a hundred years.
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