The only thing that matters in today’s GOP is unequivocally supporting, at all times, the Republican Party’s three-time nominee for president amid a criminal conviction and hundreds of millions in court judgments. You can oppose abortion, support guns, demonize immigrants — you could even back ending the American democratic project to keep the loser of an election in the White House — and that is still not enough: To survive, one must be truly, unflinchingly devoted to one man.
Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., is chair of the House Freedom Caucus, a collection of some of the most far-right lawmakers ever make it to Congress. Elected in 2020, one of his first votes was to block President Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College; one of his staffers, district director Sandy Adams, was on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol as MAGA enthusiasts bludgeoned cops with flag poles during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
