It’s the end of the 'Young Guns.'
The influential Weekly Standard journalist Fred Barnes had the idea of running a cover feature that year on the three together — Eric Cantor Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy — and the cover line stuck. | Alex Wong/Getty ImagesFormer House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was one of a trio of rising stars back in 2007 who have now completely exited the main stage of Republican national politics.
But they were ultimately all eaten by the same force — a heedless populism, eventually expressed in the Trump phenomenon. Their different finales tell us about the various phases in the rise of this tendency in the Republican Party, like strata of the Grand Canyon. In retrospect, Cantor’s defeat should have been a sign that someone could take a Brat-like message national, and perhaps forge as shocking an upset of the Republican establishment. About a year later such a candidate descended a Manhattan escalator.
These no longer reflected the mood and priorities of the party. In addition, the right flank of the GOP conference that predated Trump but later became associated with him was determined, almost as a matter of principle, to make the lives of its own House leadership miserable.
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