FiveThirtyEight provides a handy chart of how legislators are voting with respect to Trump’s preferences. Naturally, this provides a splendid measure of the team politics meme and how it’s destroying our political culture. I see that, up to today, Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski are the only GOP Senators who are not 100% in with the Party line. I wonder if they’ll end up paying for that, or if the Trump era will end before vengeance can be exacted.
The House, being much larger, has more opportunities to step out of line. Right on the first page of 8 Republicans I see two who don’t toe the line with enthusiasm, and paging along I see several more. But it’s a little incautious to read much into this, since we’re not talking about nominees, and we may be seeing minor legislation on which Trump has an opinion, but not a strong one.
Still, quite interesting.
