And here is possibly the most bizarre recent development of all - the suggestion that if the House is majority GOP after 2022 that they should "install Donald Trump as the Speaker of the House." Bearing in mind that the head of the Senate or the House is the chief strategy person for their party and runs the whole institution in a supposedly honorable and responsible way (one could argue the Newt Gingrich was one of the first really corrupt officials to turn that on its head, and McConnell is still there with his lizard-brain trying to defeat Democracy.)

The 'Donald Trump for speaker' idea won't die

Earlier this week in an interview with onetime Trump White House political guru Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows said aloud what lots of Trump-y types have been thinking for a while.

Meadows, who served as Trump's White House chief of staff, said that if Republicans regain the House majority in 2022, they should install the former President as speaker in January 2023.

"I would love to see the gavel go from (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi to Donald Trump," Meadows told Bannon. "You talk about melting down -- people would go crazy."

Meadows may be the most prominent Trump ally to float the idea, but he isn't the first.

In June, the former President had this exchange with conservative radio talk-show host Wayne Allyn Root:

ROOT: "Why not, instead of just waiting for 2024, and I'm hoping you run in 2024, but why not run in 2022 for the United States Congress, a House seat in Florida, win big, lead us to a dramatic landslide victory, taking the House by 50 seats, and then you become the speaker of the House?"

TRUMP: "You know, it's very interesting. That's so interesting. And people have said, run for the Senate, OK, run for the Senate, but you know what? Your idea might be better. It's very interesting."

In a subsequent interview with Fox News, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy seemed to give the idea even more credence.

"You know, I have talked to President Trump many times," McCarthy told Fox's Brian Kilmeade. "He tells me he wants to be speaker, and I think he should be president."