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Last November, we won. We won bigly. We won the presidency, we won the House, and we won the Senate. We have a mostly reliable majority on the Supreme Court. We won over demographics who haven’t voted for us in decades, and whose votes Mitt Romney and John McCain couldn’t dare to dream of winning. The electoral count was a blowout, and we have a clear mandate from the American people.
Yetthereare,incredulously,stillafewRepublicanrepresentativeswhohaven’tgottenthememo.
ThreeofthembetrayedDefenseSecretaryPeteHegseth.Well,maybe“betrayed”isn’tthecorrectterm,asnobodypayingattentionexpectedLisaMurkowski,SusanCollins,orMitchMcConnelltodotherightthing.Thesespinelessnarcissistsare,forallintentsandpurposes,moderateDemocratswhoeversooccasionallyinvoketheireoftheirfellowliberalsbyvotingRepublican.
ButThomTillis?His11th-hourbetrayalofHegseth,and,byextension,thewilloftheAmericanpeople,threatenedtotorpedothenomination.AfterthebombshellrevelationthatTillisplannedtovoteagainstHegseth,hedemandedthatSenateMajorityLeaderJohnThunecan
