I'm not sure about this: does a vacate motion require a majority to pass? Or does the speaker re-need a majority vote to stay in? I suspect it is the former. Which would mean that dems could certainly vote against him, if a motion was tabled. Dems plus the right number of others (e.g. repubs) would give him the boot.

Either way, it's a big shift backwards for the deepstate, who gained and held control of the speaker position and blocked out the 1 member vacate motion option, thereby reducing the power of any people's representatives to apply pressure or keep the house to the will of the people.

All the rest is technicality. Essentially, it's a reversal on Deep State controllism, even if it's just one step.

One step at a time.