The GOP is Trump's party now
When President Donald Trump nominated anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of health and human services and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, political observers — us included — wondered whether the Republican-controlled Senate would sign off on these controversial nominees. We likely got our answer last week, when both of their nominations passed out of committee, a good omen for their chances on the Senate floor. No Republican senators voted against them.
In retrospect, this shouldn't have been surprising. Traditional Republicans who might be willing to stand up to Trump are a dying breed in Washington. The GOP caucus saw a record amount of turnover during Trump's first term, with the result that a majority of Republicans in Congress today were first elected in the Trump era — and these new members are more conservative than those they replaced.
Let me take you back just eight years ago to Jan. 20, 2017. On the day Trump took office for the first time, there were 293 Republican members of the House and Senate. Few, if any, of them were products of the Trump movement; the new president had won the Republican nomination over the opposition of many GOP elites, and few had expected him to win the general election and actually serve alongside them.
But Trump proved his doubters wrong and quickly got to work refashioning the Republican Party into the party of Trump. The proof of his success is in the numbers: Today, only 121 of those 293 B.T. (Before Trump) Republican legislators (41 percent) still have an office on Capitol Hill.
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Lindsey Graham predicted this but now he's groveling in hopes of surviving.