Hakeem the Nightmare

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries delivers a speech upon the election of Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Rep. Jeffries/YouTube)

Hakeem Jeffries introduced himself to a national audience, albeit one in primetime in Hawaii, in a classless way.

After a week of waiting, Jeffries made everyone wait longer so that he could make a partisan speech when the moment called for cordiality and unity. His rambling words seemed by design to push Kevin McCarthy’s acceptance speech even further into the morning and away from an audience.

In length and tone, his remarks really missed the mark. He appeared like a man incapable of saying something nonpartisan when behind a microphone.

After a week that revealed the fissures in the Republican Party, anyone tuned in received a reminder of the jerk the other party elected as their leader.

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Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. His books include Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (ISI Books, 2011), A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Crown Forum, 2004). In 2025, he releases his magnum opus, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. He splits time between city Massachusetts and cabin Vermont.  
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