Who’s our next speaker? We wondered that last week after the ousting of Kevin McCarthy by all House Democrats and eight rogue Republicans. Mollie Hemingway wasn’t a fan of that ousting, but neither is she cheering much of anything else happening in Washington, DC.

“The media and other permanent Beltway inhabitants asserted that American life itself was thrown into chaos by the vote,” she wrote, while quoting examples of that hand-wringing. She notes that there’s not nearly that level of consternation over “the chaos inflicted on Americans every day.”

For instance, where were the freakouts when cities across the country devolved into violent crime-ridden cesspools? A years-long, billionaire-funded campaign to install pro-crime district attorneys laid the groundwork for Democrats’ wildly successful “Defund the Police” initiative amid Black Lives Matter riots and race-baiting. That’s pretty chaotic.

The country’s southern border is wide open to the trafficking of humans and drugs. Nearly 7 million illegal border crossings have occurred under the Biden administration that we know of. The mass invasion is overwhelming border towns that bear the brunt of the government-orchestrated influx. Even Democrat strongholds such as New York City and Chicago are begging for relief from the influx of illegal immigrants. That’s pretty chaotic.

Heck, trips to grocery stores have gotten chaotic for most Americans, who are watching their paychecks get eaten up by skyrocketing prices and shrinking packages. People can’t buy cars. They can’t buy or sell homes because of mortgage rates. Democrats suppressed energy production, then squandered the country’s strategic petroleum reserve for electoral gain. For many Americans, this feels chaotic.

Democrats cheered on nationwide riots in 2020 that cost billions of dollars and killed dozens of people. The rioters attacked the White House, a federal courthouse, scores of monuments, and hundreds of businesses. While little to nothing was done to stop this, when supporters of a Republican rioted at the Capitol, the Department of Justice launched its most comprehensive political prosecutions to date, rounding up everyone they could and charging them with major crimes. Democrat prosecutors up and down the Eastern Seaboard are trying to imprison the former president — their top political opponent — and seize all of his assets for made-up crimes. They’re acting like cartoon villains from the Soviet Union or Third World dictatorships. That’s pretty chaotic.

What Democrats did to change hundreds of election laws and processes in 2020 was chaotic. They changed the law to allow tens of millions of unsupervised ballots to flood into the electoral system at the same time they decreased scrutiny of those ballots. One of the world’s wealthiest men took over government election offices in the blue areas of swing states to secure the election of his favored candidate. Tech companies conspired with left-wing bureaucrats to censor American speech and debate, in clear violation of the First Amendment. Chaotic!

Democrats put the country through an impeachment because the former president asked questions about a now-indisputable influence-peddling scheme run by the current president’s family in Ukraine. Few in the permanent D.C. establishment accused Democrats of governing by chaos.

Federal public health officials lost the trust of most thinking Americans during the Covid pandemic response, lying about the origins of the virus and the proper response to it. The country was shut down by government force. Churches, businesses, and schools were forbidden to open. The government worked with social media companies to censor public speech and debate that contradicted official government messaging. That felt pretty chaotic.

I could go on and on and on about the chaos that has been visited upon the American people by a corrupt D.C. establishment. But the ousting of a speaker of the House, surprising as it was, almost certainly doesn’t rank on the list.

She proceeds to outline numerous ways that Joe Biden has brought chaos to America and the world, culminating most recently with the Hamas assault on Israel. Ultimately, she concludes:

Americans cannot trust the permanent D.C. political and media classes to identify true crises, only to create them with their made-up reporting and hysteria.

Read the whole thing here.