As to McCarthy, I was baffled at first. Then I looked at the list of his compromises and felt better. But what really convinced me it was probably the right thing was reading Trump's endorsement carefully. He basically only said, "Hey, don't worry about it, everything's going to be fine."

See, McCarthy is clearly a douchebag and tried to stab Trump in the back. Trump never even publicly called him out on these things. So my thesis became that a backroom deal had made McCarthy completely subordinate to Trump. Then this solidified it with much more detail:

WAYNE ROOT: Meet the New House Speaker: President Donald J. Trump…Running Congress Direct From Mar-a-Lago

The only thing that still really bothers me about Trump is the vaxx stuff. I mean, how hard is it at this point to say, "Well, all the experts around me said that Warp Speed was the greatest thing ever and we worked really hard on it. But now there's some troubling information coming out about the vaxx. People should look into this for themselves because now I'm not so sure those experts were as expert as they made out."

But then again Trump lives in a very different world of information than us ordinary people. Like, you and I know exactly how famous Tom Cruise is, but do you think Tom Cruise knows the same way we do? I doubt it.