Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
“When you strike at a king,” Ralph Waldo Emerson famously explained, “you must kill him.” Generations later, the phrase was tweaked and popularized on HBO’s “The Wire,” on which Omar Devone Little said, “You come at the king, you best not miss.” The point behind the sentiment, of course, was obvious: Those who take on a powerful authority and fail shouldn’t be surprised when the powerful authority responds in kind.
Her colleagues all but begged her not to bother trying to bring down her own party’s House speaker — especially knowing in advance that Johnson would prevail — but she ignored them. Now, it appears those same GOP members aren’t eager to let bygones be bygones. Even like-minded radicals appear to be abandoning her.
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