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Imagine you’re a Republican in the House. You think the election was stolen. Logically, suppose you want to overturn the Electoral College. In that case, you’d be upset at Liz Cheney, who wanted to impeach Trump for falsely claiming the election was stolen.

In light of day, 138 of 211 Republicans in the House voted to challenge the Pennsylvania certification. Roughly the same number who behind closed doors defended Cheney.

What happened? In the public vote, the members “performed.” Their primary mission is re-nomination in secure districts, and they played to the base – all 138 of them.

But when behind closed doors, with no one watching and no individual accountability, they voted their conscience. That Liz Cheney was right, and the electoral college challenge was bogus – only 61 disagreed.

It was a stunning admission.

If the base can’t see, 138 becomes 61!!!

And then came the Thursday night vote by the entire House. Republicans refused to clean their own house, and it was left to Democrats to demand a vote on stripping Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments.

Again, in a public vote watched by the base, only 11 Republicans were willing to strip Greene of her committee assignments. I think if they’d had the chance to discipline her without the base watching, they’d have done it.

You know who gets what I’m saying? Marjorie Taylor Greene. Yesterday she said this:

“So I hope that my Republican colleagues really think about what they've done. I'm sure they're going to hear from their voters at home because the base is loyal to President Trump and the base has been very loyal to me, and they've shown me that.”

It all begs the question of whether this Republican fear of the GOP base is warranted. Sadly the answer is yes.