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Republican senators who voted to convict Trump face political peril at home


It is a time of political peril for the seven Republican senators who voted to convict the dominant figure of their party. State and local Republican parties have censured or are thinking about censuring several of those senators. And Donald Trump himself is set to re-emerge for his first public appearance as former president this coming weekend. Yamiche Alcindor reports.
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It is a time of political peril for the seven Republican senators who voted to convict the dominant figure of their party.
State and local Republican parties have censured or are thinking about censuring several of those senators. And Donald Trump himself is set to reemerge for his first public appearance as former president, this coming weekend. ....

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State Republican Parties Are Putting Trump Worship Above All Else


Over the past decade or so, the GOP has been far better at describing what it stands
against than what it stands
for, so it is perhaps no surprise that the party has increasingly come to define itself not by some set of shared principles, but by its cultish devotion to one man:
Donald Trump. He is undeserving of the fealty undeserving of many of the spoils he’s come by in his maddeningly charmed life but no matter: The Republican establishment for years had a void, and he finally came around and filled it. Not all Republicans were thrilled with the arrangement, of course, but for much of his tenure most avoided doing anything to disturb it; there were tax cuts to pass, courts to pack, and libs to own. ....

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