Newly minted Senate Majority Leader John Thune will no doubt want to get off to a better start than House Republicans did on Friday. Donald Trump had to stage an intervention to get Mike Johnson elected Speaker by reminding his caucus to focus on the mission rather than on inside-the-Beltway feuds and grievances.
To be specific, Trump had to lecture Ralph Norman and Keith Self by telling them that they were “screwing it all up” by “being ridiculous”:
Mace and Johnson corralled the two holdouts into a hideaway office just off the House floor, where Trump was waiting to talk over speakerphone. The message from the president-elect, a source with direct knowledge of the call told RealClearPolitics, was that “we had the most historic election, and you guys are stepping all over it by being ridiculous.”
“I won all these swing states, but while Democrats are…
