From a New York Times guest essay by Yuval Levin headlined “What We Can Do to Make American Politics Less Dysfunctional”:

The disarray engulfing the House of Representatives has been unprecedented, yet somehow it has also felt inevitable. No sitting speaker has ever been removed before, but the process that brought about Representative Kevin McCarthy’s overthrow was the culmination of several related trends that have amounted to a repudiation of coalition-building in American politics.