When Trump ran for president, he was the outsider that the Republican establishment shunned. Now, loyalty to Trump and the Big Lie is necessary to being a Republican.
Ohio Republican Anthony Gonzales announced last week that he will not run for re-election next year rather than face a ferocious primary challenge against Max Miller, a former Trump White House staffer backed by the former president.
The cancer of Trumpism is consuming the entire party, and remaining sensible conservatives are being pushed out. Rep. Gonzalez is the first of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the January 6 insurrection to retire early, but he likely won’t be the last.
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