Invading Greenland - suicide.

[Axtremus]

Not a surprise to me. It has been very obvious to me, for a long time, that the Republican Party has capitulated to Trump. Any former Republicans who stood up to Trump are just that, former (or retiring) Republicans.

[89th]

To me it distilled who was in it for power vs principle. The power folks are obvious...folks like Rubio, Cruz, and many others. Who would've thought you'd have a power republican president opposed by people like Bush, McCain, Romney, Cheney, Murkowski, Collins, Pence, Bolton........

[Horace]

I don't really think Bolton will ever weigh in on the anti-power side of any real equation. Nor Cheney. Cheney was captured by his daughter, and changed due to that affiliation. As many do.

[jon-nyc]

Cheney’s more complicated I think. Yes they went after his daughter. (Trump went after Cruz’s wife too). But they also went after ‘the neocons’ of which he was a poster child. Trump made Jolly agree with my long held position about the Iraq war his base go against the Iraq war in both practice and principle. This was his signature career accomplishment starting as DoD Sec in the 90s and even chairman of the house armed services committee before that.

He was also a Paul Ryan fiscal conservative.

MAGA’s treatment of his daughter may have been sufficient on its own, but Cheney’s aversion to Trump is overdetermined.