There is one thing that is clear from the House GOP speaker saga: Any Republicans who wonder why we keep losing and Democrats keep winning need only look at the utter incompetence of House Republicans over the past decade and longer.

The decision by eight House Republicans to partner with the entire Democratic caucus to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) does not help the GOP in any way. All it has done is hamstrung the only power Republicans have in Washington, with Democrats controlling both the White House and the Senate. It also distracts from several matters Democrats would like people to forget, including Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) pulling a fire alarm to delay a funding vote and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) refusing to resign over his corruption.

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It makes Republicans look reckless and incompetent at a time when they enjoy a historic advantage among voters on the economy. It takes all the heat off of Democrats and almost guarantees that Republicans will again be blamed for any government shutdown that results as they bicker among themselves about who should replace McCarthy. All because of some concern that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and others claim comes from “the base” about how Republicans always lose to Democrats.

Why is that, though? Could you imagine what happened to McCarthy happening to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)? Even when Democrats elected their own “rebels” with far-left representatives such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), those members fell in line with the party almost immediately. The biggest dust-up during Pelosi’s second tenure, in which House Democrats only had a 10-seat majority, was Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff trash-talking fellow Democrats, which resulted in Ocasio-Cortez promptly cutting him loose to placate Pelosi.

On the other end of it, could you imagine a vulnerable, more centrist House Democrat stabbing Pelosi in the back after she saved his or her reelection campaign the way Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) did to McCarthy so she could fundraise off of it? Of course not.

Instead, House Democrats are a nearly unified machine that Pelosi and other Democratic leaders wield to beat Republicans on issue after issue in the House. Even now, some Republicans are mad that Democrats in the “bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus” joined Gaetz in booting McCarthy from office. That is the whole point: Centrist or progressive, House Democrats are in lockstep in advancing a single Democratic agenda. House Republicans shoot themselves in the foot repeatedly and are surprised when they bleed out.

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This isn’t impossible for Republicans. In the Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has had his caucus in near unity as well despite “the base” demanding he be ousted. McConnell’s steady hand and the Senate GOP’s focus on winning has reshaped the Supreme Court for a generation. But House Republicans let ego, fundraising, or petty personal feuds get in the way of them operating as a well-oiled conservative machine.

Blame it on the GOP hard-liners or blame it on the more centrist members (or both, for all anyone cares). It makes little difference for House Democrats, who are ruthless in wielding their power as a caucus and are willing to put aside their radical views or their centrist personas to push the Democratic Party’s agenda on the country. The House Republican circular firing squad is a loser of its own making, and its inability to focus on fixing the country has allowed Democrats to beat them once again.