Maybe the GOP split is already here - By Jennifer Rubin
By Jennifer Rubin June 30 at 9:30 AM
Since President Trump entered office, the running debate in the political class has focused on the degree to which the GOP is now the party of Trump. Will it ever repudiate him? Could traditional conservatives split from Trumpian populists? These are all variations on a theme — the fate of the GOP in the age of Trump.
Since the special elections and the firing of FBI Director James B. Comey, conventional wisdom has held that there will be no internal reckoning within the GOP unless and until the 2018 midterms. Look how docile Republican leaders are! See how Republicans in polls are sticking with him?
Perhaps the split already is underway. Consider four events: 1.) The Senate by a 98-2 vote passes Russia sanctions the White House did not want and, to boot, puts limits on executive discretion to waive them; 2.) Senate conservatives and moderates, in a pincer movement, halt Trumpcare. The president’s notion that it does not cut Medicaid is wildly repudiated by senators from Medicaid expansion states. (The emperor has no clothes; the bill does not have enough support); 3.) A significant number of GOP senators and congressmen condemn the president’s vulgar tweets directed at Mika Brzezinski; and 4.) Moderate House members now threaten to derail the budget (without which there can be no budget reconciliation).
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