Even by the standards of this year’s rolling political chaos, you’d expect House Republicans to at least try to project unity—if only to pretend their razor-thin majority isn’t hanging by a thread. But that’s not what’s happening.

On Monday and Tuesday, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, a member of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership team and a newly announced candidate for governor, accused him of shielding the “deep state” and “siding with” Democrats. It was an unusually sharp broadside, even for a conference accustomed to public melodrama.

Then, on Wednesday, she continued to blast Johnson, telling the Wall Street Journal, “He certainly wouldn’t have the votes to be speaker if there was a roll-call vote tomorrow.”

“I believe that the majority of Republicans would vote for new leaders

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