House Republicans have no realistic or working plan to unite the fractured GOP majority, elect a new speaker, and return to the work of Congress that has been languishing since hard-liners ousted Kevin McCarthy at the start of the month.

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/10/20/jim-jordan-makes-plea-to-colleagues-to-elect-him-house-speaker-after-2-failed-tries/

Though they were not directly threatening his job, hard-liners did strike back at Mr. Johnson over his tactics on Wednesday, defeating a usually routine procedural motion to bring a spending bill to the floor.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/us/politics/mike-johnson-shutdown-spending-bill.html

With Mr. Macron’s efforts to achieve social “” clearly in ruins, the hard-liners in his coalition, such as the tough-on-crime interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, are likely to be strengthened.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/opinion/france-protests-nahel-m.html