President Trump pushed super-hard for Indiana Republicans to redistrict. Party leaders there felt compelled to hold a vote on redistricting, but surprisingly a slew of Republican state senators joined their Democratic colleagues to block it. That vote provided Trump names. Eight of the Republican state senators who opposed the redistricting were up for reelection this year. Trump endorsed primary challengers to seven of them. And on Tuesday, five of the seven lost to their Trump-backed rivals; some of the incumbents were resoundingly defeated. Another primary is currently too close to call. Just one has been declared the winner of his race.
The bad news, though, is that the results in Indiana show that the Republican Party is a cult of Trump—so Supreme Court justices, governors, state legislatures, congresspeople, and even rank-and-file GOP voters will keep falling in line with the whims of our wannabe dictator.
And now in Indiana, Trump and Republican voters have again forced dissidents out of the party, as they did to Liz Cheney and others over the last decade who broke with the president.
This is an abomination. House elections are often a check on incumbent presidents. But Trump, instead of taking the democratic course of either pushing a more popular agenda or accepting defeat, insisted on his party redrawing congressional districts to ensure a GOP majority. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
Indiana isn’t a story of successful gerrymandering. But it is a story of successful partisanship and party leadership. Trump just ended the careers of five politicians he probably hadn’t heard of a year ago. I don’t like the idea of party bosses. But what makes me really discouraged is being on the side of a party that doesn’t have effective bosses against one that does.
So Tuesday was a short-term victory for Trump. But it might be a long-term defeat for the Republican Party.
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