John Boehner’s resignation just handed the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton. Here’s why.

John Boehner only ever seemed to care about the interests of the wealthy establishment, and never did anything to help the common man during his time in charge of the House. But he was a pragmatist who knew how to get what he could for his wealthy puppet masters, and knew when to give in. Boehner was also the only old-school republican left with any influence, and the only thing keeping the rest of the party from setting itself on fire. His departure means that the long brewing battle for the soul of the party is now over: the republican party now is the tea party. And that’s going to leave the people in the middle with only one place to go.

Boehner’s replacement as Speaker of the House will be, in every sense of the word, worse. Whoever it ends up being, the new Speaker will be a tea party darling who will continue with Boehner’s strategy of 100% obstruction against the Obama agenda, but now it’ll be done less subtly. The new Speaker will pull more political stunts, and invoke more extremist rhetoric that turns off everyone but its own far-end base. He’ll also be less political adept, meaning that even as the republican role dissolves into stuntcasting over the next year and a half, Obama will be in a position to muscle even more of his agenda through side doors.

Moderate and undecided voters tend to ignore ideology and instead vote for whichever party has the appearance of propriety or whichever candidate has the appearance of class. With the republican party about to fall entirely into the hands of tea party extremists who care less about the future of the party than they do about carrying out their faux-revolution in the form of holding office and refusing to govern, those who weren’t sure who to vote for in 2016 are now about have the answer handed to them emphatically.

Whoever the republican nominee for President ends up being, that candidate will be held accountable for all the post-Boehner antics that are about to take place in congress, simply by party association. And that means Hillary Clinton’s task of getting elected President in 2016 just got that much easier.

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