Freedom Caucus vs. Donald Trump: They Win.

Sooner or later, everyone on the House Freedom Caucus will get a chance to talk for five minutes on prime time and the GOP will get around to electing Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker of the House. But since the government isn’t going to run out of money until next September, there’s no great rush to get anything done.

The so-called Freedom Caucus, which claims to represent 50 members of the House, grew out of the Tea Party which never was a political party in any sense of the word. Other than some vague nonsense about a ‘strict’ application of the Constitution to all laws, the Tea Party’s political agenda consisted basically of two items — term limits for all elected officials and a balanced budget requirement to reduce and ultimately eliminate the federal debt.

This time around, the Freedom Caucus wants to make sure that its members get appointed to the most important committees of the House, including but not limited the budget committee and the rules committee, the latter being the committee which decides what legislation will come to the full House for a vote.

Who decides which members of the House will serve on which committees? The Speaker decides, and he does it all by himself. Of course, he consults with this one and that one before announcing which member of the GOP will sit where, but ultimately the way in which…