Last week, the House Republican Conference erupted in chaos when Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., withdrew his candidacy for speaker of the House.

Journalists produced many scalding hot-takes on this occurrence — including the silly idea that one candidate’s withdrawal indicates the GOP is collapsing. In reality, Republicans still find themselves in a far better position than they were two years ago, when they were in the middle of a government shutdown that seriously harmed the party’s brand. If they recovered from that, they can certainly recover from this inside-baseball controversy.