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Kevin McCarthy and Ted Cruz are not true believers. Neither are Mitch McConnell or Jim Jordan. MTG and Boeburt may have been at one point. Judge Cannon probably is.
Most of them just get behind him to ride his political wake instead of getting run over by it. They don’t have illusions that they can control him at this point.
They are dumb, but not fall for Trump’s bullshit dumb. They’re dumb in that they’re willing to trade the future of the country for short term money and power. They can’t see how a rising tide lifts all boats.
The Ohio Republican party just made a brazen attempt to consolidate power (and failed).
They tried to effectively remove citizen initiatives, because the legislature doesn’t control those.