Not A Fan

 Ruth Ben-Ghiat:

The "message discipline" is part of the authoritarian creep- all autocratic parties have party lines and standardized talking points

Quoting James Fallows:

Amazing message-discipline from otherwise-Lords-of-Flies House GOP: 

"The blame here is on the 208 Democrats, who joined only 8 Repubs, to remove K McCarthy" 

Every one of them is saying it, every time. 

Query: Did Pelosi ever get even 1 GOP vote as speaker? I'm not aware of any

Who actually undermines her point.

This isn’t autocratic message discipline bent on destroying democracy. This is the only defense they have.

And it’s pathetic.

Anything else they say is an admission that this chaos and incompetence is wholly on them. And as Fallows says, that “talking point” is worse than useless.

If this is “authoritarian creep,” then it’s the GOP creeping to their political grave.