They are just giving up on the GOP and capitulating to MAGA. I heard an interview on Fresh Air with Adam Kizinger (hawking his new book) and he's bemoaning the death of the traditional GOP.
I think the Republicans are doing a fine job of rejecting what the truth is to the public.
It's sad because we need two strong reasonable parties and it seems like these folks like Buck, Kizinger - and others who aren't leaving but who don't speak out - are doing exactly what the terrorist branch has been trying to do all along. Their threats of primarying them or worse - threats of violence - are working. They either back MAGA in public while criticizing in private, or they leave. But, the ones who stay still end up voting for MAGA stuff, so I don't really care what they say in private.
Now, the task is to educate the marginally engaged R voters (they vote R because they always have and Ds are baby killers who want to give free stuff to lazy people) that it's not the same R party they've been a part of. I live in the middle of super trumper land, but I have a lot of friends who are Republicans. They vote R for "it's the party of business/lower taxes/pro-life" reasons, but MAGA is abadoning that. I need them to understand that the GOP is becmong MAGA, and, while some of them would be on board with this (I've seen some posting of how much they like Mike Johnson - although I hope they don't really know much about him except he's "conservative"), I hope some would not vote for Trump or our other MAGA reps if they just knew more. I think some of these folks voted for Doug Jones when it came down to him or Roy Moore. Good to see there was some line they wouldn't cross. Unless they wrote in Nick Saben.
Santos responded by seizing on a news report about Womack's son pleading guilty to a federal drug charge, posting: "Instead of being home, taking care of your son, you're sitting pretty in the swamp." "I have been respectful of my colleagues through this process but I'm sick and tired of people with glass houses casting stones at me," Santos said. In a statement earlier this year, Womack said his family loves their son and "believe in our hearts he will redeem himself. We regret he is at the mercy of the criminal justice system and will respect the judgment."
s titular Mama June in Fogbow's Favourite Show™ Mama June: From Not To Hot! Fogbow's Theme Song™ Edith Massey's "I Got The Evidence!" 
over that and she has been gone since 2014
JUST IN: @SpeakerJohnson seems to be following through with his promise to release the January 6th tapes.
