January 2025 is gonna be a helluva month

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10. I think they will fall in line fairly quickly

They can only stall plan A. They have no plan B.

Unfortunately, they have no real reason to care if they look foolish. The next election is not for two years, and the moderate Republicans who might have been persuaded to switch parties out of frustration never made it past the primaries. They don’t care if they look foolish or not. They only care if they look victorious. Unless three Republican House members switch parties, they remain victorious, although if three more of them end up in a dementia ward without leaving office, their votes are mothballed, and things could get interesting.