The breathless horse race/theater coverage of the #KevinMcCarthy #Speaker saga shows that the national media has learned exactly nothing in five long years. It’s still desperately trying to fit a “normal politics like it used to be” frame around a “far right authoritarian party fundamentally unserious about both democracy and actually governing” picture. That world and party is gone, and the only way to understand what you’re seeing is to internalize that change.