Yeah after I posted it, I saw it was also on dailykos and thought "oh. uh oh". And I didn't bother to look this guy up, fearing for the worst. But I think the theory is right, regardless.

The Clown World contingent has lost, not gained power in the interim

How do you mean? I see Elise Stefanik going meteoric because she did batshit lies the right way. That's basically the intra-party dynamics. Do you mean lost power over the dems, or equivalently, fallen out of favor with the electorate? Maybe a little.? But the head fucking clown is still popular enough to legitimately win the electoral college, despite having already tried to feed the circus audience to the lions on live TV.

It has been excruciating to see the House clowns, who we all know or knew were involved in J6 and the so-obviously-illegal fake electors plot (same plot), currently running the House and immersed in the absolute most hilarious impeachment attempt(s) ever conducted. Good clowns! They spend an incredible amount of time lying about the Bidens' business deals and other small potatoes, and Joe can't even be bothered to say "Hey so isn't it funny that all of the clowns dragging me and mine through the mud demonstrably broke the law trying to install Trump, but are just allowed to skate?". These same clowns, the skater clowns allowed to break the law, call it the fascist Biden DoJ and accuse it of prosecuting political opponents. Good clowns.

It's funny because yeah obviously they can't legislate, regardless of who's speaker, but how much that plays into their effectiveness of coup attempts, I mean, I dunno. It probably doesn't bode well, sure, but look, if they're really bad at coups, they can just keep trying, because apparently there is no legal penalty at all. There does exist political reward, now. There did not, three years ago, at least not as much, but Trump's mostly fixed that. The tribalism has made the party turn hard right because (and in tandem with the declining number of competitive voting districts) the only challenge is winning the primary, which caters to the most radical voters of a party, because in the general, conservatives will vote for anyone with an "R" on the ballot. Problem is, some people aren't catering. They ain't playin'. They craycray. And they're winning a large number of races.

I think we talked about this, but one of Trump's strategies is nicely summarized in Trump's or Lara Trump's (I forget which, not interested) message to the RNC while floating her for the top spot in it, which was basically "Just worry about me, and I'll help you when I'm back in office". Now, a lot of that is brazenly trying to capture of the financial arm of the GOP, but some of it is perceived as "oh once the boss is back in the office, he'll take care of me". Either way, the fact that he can try to hijack RNC $$$s without a single GOP federal office holder or pundit saying "You know, I kind of don't like that" lets you know that they're publicly submitting to it. Whether they stew about it in private is effectively irrelevant, and like I said, some are even true blue craycray. But every single one of them perform as cronies, except for maybe Lisa Murkowski's left elbow area and Romney's forehead.

Here's a prediction that I got wrong: I was convinced that the clowns would make Trump the Speaker, but everything worked out even cleaner, and Trump doesn't have to do anything except TRUTH (verb, virtual) and friendly interviews (byebye Brett Baier) or rallies, and he's effectively the House.

I think that two or three SCOTUS justices are lost. Roberts, less so, but sometimes an unwitting accessory. The House GOP is Trump. The Senate GOP is mostly chickenshit. Truly, I hope you're right, that there is still sufficient resistance in enough places. If Trump forreal wins the election, at least we will know that we deserve this, in a way. Worse than discomforting, actually.