Posted: May 12, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 12 Donald Trump, shown in 2016, now towers over the Republican Party. Simply criticizing the former president in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol could now become a firing offence.(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) It's almost over. A rare remaining ember of resistance to Donald Trump in the upper echelons of the U.S. Republican Party is on the verge of being extinguished. Republicans will vote Wednesday on whether to purge Liz Cheney from her position in the party leadership in the House of Representatives. It would have been a mind-boggling turn of events not too long ago.