Bloodthirsty Wall Street Journal begs Mark Meadows to challenge Paul Ryan for speaker

The Wall Street Journal editorial board was particularly bloodthirsty this weekend. Those writers encouraged House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., to come out of the shadows and “announce an immediate challenge” against House Speaker Paul Ryan. “Man up, Mr. Meadows,” they write. Otherwise, sit down and shut up.

Really the editorial is an excellent piece of writing that’s worth a read. It sounds like an abbreviated Shakespeare play, a slightly reimagined “Julius Caesar” crossed with “House of Cards.” And it’s got everything: togas, congressional knife fights, a dramatic coup — everything, that is, except an understanding of the situation.