that makes kinzinger the ninth congressional republican to choose to pack up and leave washington this cycle. he joins three other house members and five senators, all members that are by and large more standard pre-trump republicans, i think you call them. now, for some context, ten house republicans vote today impeach trump the second time around. kinzinger is the second member in that group to retire and seven republican senators vote today convict, two of them have decided to retire. according to 538, as of april, get this, out of the 293 republicans in congress when trump was sworn in, 132 of them, about 45% are no longer in congress or have announced their intention to leave. shell goldberg is an op-ed columnist for the new york times. tim million ser writer at large for the bulwark who called one republican congressman s decision to retire a slap in the face for delusional republicans who want to presend that the gop
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michelle. that 45%, i mean i have been thinking about it all day. that s a big amount of turnover. if you are in the kinzinger or cheney or not gonzalez who is the guy that tim just mentioned who is retiring because he doesn t want to face basically the trump mob, even if you go along with it all, a lot of them hate the guy, clearly, and i think they kind of hate their own base to be totally honest. i think they have people for the contempt. they are living this double life they find themselves un, like, unenjoyable. it s not sustainable. the only thing sustainable is true believers. you will get more marjory stoneman douglass marjorie taylor greens who are playing the game. it s never clear to me why being in congress is a good job. it s never clear why some people see it as such a good job that
accusations there. i just want to put myself on the record as not knowing what the accusations are. i know there are accusations against eric greitens. let me just ask you this, michelle. to tim s point, what you are seeing when you take a step back aside from the individual moments, two down, eight to go trump sell bra tore statement, a very efficient machine with things operating in parallel, trump, the fox, the base, to grind everyone out who isn t that kind of way to produce a 200 proof pure complete maga faction as one of the two major parties in america over the coming next two to three years. yeah, going back to what tim said, i think a lot of people thought the day after january 6th there was such a reaction against, you know, people kind of looking at the maga movement straight in the face and
the nature of the republican party s base as much as he revealed the preferences that have been there for quite a long time. yeah. and, tim, you mentioned ohio senate primary is a great example. it is such an embarrassing spectacle. it s like it s like i mean, really truly, like, cringe-inducing to watch these folks. this has now become a thing. like, you ve got this thing the way to sort of get ahead is to be an elite product of, like, the pinnacle top of the meritocracy or cotton, ted cruzs, j.d. vances who dress up in the most preposterous aping of what they think is the populous costuming and then it works. that is the future. like, that s what that is what will ultimately be the entire caucus. yeah, look, i don t think