https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-real-republican-radicals
The Real Republican Radicals
The popular story of the Republican base through the Trump years, and especially this year, has been that it comes from the social margins, subject to the conspiratorial paranoia of QAnon and OANN. But, at the crucial moment, the base that the President could rely upon was composed of careful partisans who followed the rules and sought remedy within them. If Michael Flynn was plotting a revolution, they were preparing for a lawsuit. Really, they did not seem so far from the precinct committeemen whom Jeff Flake had worked so hard to install, to keep the Party infrastructure “sane.”