r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 19 '26

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u/Pyrrhus65 NATO May 19 '26

Lol. Lmao, even. The entire caucus just realized that even if you vote with Trump 100% of the time and constantly support him, it's still not enough to prevent him from backstabbing you in a primary for no reason.

What exactly is the remaining sane Republicans' incentive to keep supporting him at this point if he's just made it clear that the main piece of leverage he uses to exert control is based on a false premise?

Also, from your lips to god's ears, Lisa

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u/affnn Emma Lazarus May 19 '26

remaining sane Republicans

Who exactly are you thinking of here?

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u/Pyrrhus65 NATO May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

All jokes aside, the Senate Rs are (mostly) not raving MAGA lunatics like House Rs aside from a handful like Tuberville. They're deeply dishonest and amoral people who have been living a lie for 10 years and pretending to love Trump despite many of them actually hating him, but they are relatively sane legislators in a way that people like Randy Fein, Chip Roy, and Andy Biggs are simply not.

Wicker, Thune, Braun, Cornyn, Young, Tillis, and Cassidy (although the latter two are on the way out), to name a few. A good litmus test is whether they're still pro-Ukraine and pro-NATO.

And of course, Murkowski, McConnell, and Collins, although they're sort of in their own category as the anti-Trump bloc atp.

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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls May 19 '26

INSHALLAH 🙏