Well, it appears the House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has survived the tantrum from the right wing Freedom Caucus members after he made a deal with Joe Biden that essentially won none of their priorities and pushed off their next hostage opportunity until 2025. They weren’t happy but they were anxious to get back to screeching about “wokeness”, attacking the “Deep State” and pretending to do investigations into Joe Biden so they let it slide. With that saga ending with a whimper not a bang, it’s time to rejoin the Republican presidential primary clown car. Both front runner former President Donald Trump and his chief rival Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis were both in Iowa this week wooing the midwestern white conservatives who are the supposed avatars of Real America. Appearing before small intimate crowds isn’t either man’s strong suit but it’s an important rite of passage that even Donald Trump can’t entirely escape. He takes a lot of pictures with fans at Mar-a-Lago but they’ve paid an admission fee. Trump famously made his feelings known back in 2016 when he told a reporter: Don’t forget that when I ran in the primaries, when I was in the primaries, everyone said you can’t do that in New Hampshire, you can’t do that. You have to go and meet little groups, you have to see — cause I did big rallies, 3-4-5K people would come . . . and they said, “Wait a minute, Trump can never make it, because that’s not the…