Republican rats are fleeing the sinking ship

The time to get off the Trump train is coming to a close

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For three and a half years now, most Republicans have cowered in fear of Trump’s Twitter tirades. This fear was not without basis. Jeff Flake, John McCain’s junior colleague from Arizona, decided not to run for re-election in 2018, realizing that his principled criticisms of Trump would make him unelectable in the primary. That…