Donald Trump had a two-pronged approach to public relations when he was in office. He told moderates and business interests that tax cuts and deregulation were the meat of his presidency, and that the tweets were just empty entertainment for the masses; reactionaries, on the other hand, were assured that the tweets were what mattered, not the tax cuts. In spite of the obvious message inconsistency, the approach worked fairly well until January 6, when Trump finally fell off the horse.
Kevin McCarthy is trying to do something similar in the name of party unity. On the one hand, he is visibly sucking up to Trump, voting to expel Liz Cheney, and changing his story on the riot; on the other hand, he is telling the MSM that the GOP recognizes Biden as the legitimate president in order to keep the party looking respectable to the donor class. These stories are mutually exclusive.
Can he continue to walk the tightrope through the 2022 election? It will be up to the Democratic leadership and the handful of remaining principled Republicans to make sure that the answer is no.