The Day Trump Broke the GOP
Even after Trump decisively lost the election, Republicans across Washington went along with him as he spread lies and conspiracy theories, filed baseless lawsuits, and raged when judges threw them out, as they did again and again. When Trump called for a final reckless coup against the constitutional order, many were willing to follow him even to this legal, political, and moral dead end—cynical opportunists like Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, in the Senate, and a majority of House Republicans, including their leader, Kevin McCarthy, of California. But now not all. Trump had finally found the red line beyond which at least some in his party would not pass. “The Republican Party has been put in a state of civil war,” the G.O.P. strategist Karl Rove said, on Fox. Politico called it “the day that Trump broke the GOP.”
One of the quotes I read was a man saying that they’d be back in two years, that the next election, things would turn back towards them. I don’t see how that’ll work if the GOP, which is already sliding towards becoming a minority party, is divided against itself.