Politics

The rise of Ryan and Rubio illustrate the Republican establishment is striking back against the supposed rebellion.

"Duly, old school Tim Huelskamp, Republican representative from Kansas, who had been bullied by John Boehner for defying the speaker, told the Washington Examiner that no other speaker he knew of “would … have as much power as Paul Ryan asked for himself”:
“Those conditions include a request that the House eliminate a rule that allows a member to seek a vote to oust the speaker. That provision is part of the original rules of the House, authored by Thomas Jefferson.”
Ryan haggled until his anti-Jeffersonian “conditions” were met. These were, confirmed Time, that he “emerge as House Republicans’ unity candidate, endorsed by the three major factions of House Republicans.”
The Freedom Caucus folded.
In the Jeffersonian tradition, the most conservative of lawmakers wanted to be able to dissent from leadership without being censured by the speaker.
In the tradition of Boehner of Orange, whom the left has just about beatified, Ryan wished to further consolidate power in the office of speaker.
The Ryan, regimist takeover had been presaged by a promising coup in the People’s House, earlier in October."

The claims of rebellion were exaggerated once again.