In cementing his third-straight Republican presidential nomination, Trump and his staunchest followers have used menace and harassment to fundamentally change the party of Reagan
Former U.S. president Donald Trump leaves the stage after speaking during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, U.S. Feb. 26, 2022.for inciting the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, it was the beginning of the end of his political career.
Since launching his Truth Social media platform in early 2022, Trump has posted more than 600 attacks on fellow Republicans, singling out more than 100 party officials, activists and right-leaning media figures for condemnation, according to a Reuters review of his nearly 20,000 posts during that time.
And of the 10 Republican members of the House of Representatives who voted to impeach him, just two remain in office. Four lost to Trump-backed primary challengers, including Liz Cheney, a former member of the Republican House leadership, and four opted not to run again. At least seven were threatened or harassed by Trump backers, according to police reports, court records and their own public statements.
The fallout “was like a tsunami,” Rogers said in an interview. “There’s people that actually worship Trump like a deity.” He still plans to vote for Trump, dismissing Democrats as too far left. Trump’s salvos against fellow Republicans bring political risks, some political experts say. The attacks mattered less when Trump’s Democratic opponent for the White House was 81-year-old President Joe Biden, who trailed him in polling, burdened by concerns about his age.
Rice received hundreds of angry emails and voice messages after the vote, including a warning “to watch out.” Within weeks, the South Carolina Republican Party censured him, a formal expression of disapproval. Nebraska congressman Don Bacon, a retired Air Force general and evangelical Christian with a firmly conservative voting record, says he has been threatened and harassed repeatedly by people “radicalized” by far-right media personalities such as Bannon.
Fred Upton, a former Republican congressman from Michigan, also voted to impeach Trump over the Capitol riots. That day, Bannon called on his show for constituents “to deal with” the Republican impeachers. Upton was deluged with threats. In a December 2022 social media post, Trump savaged Upton after the lawmaker’s name was floated as a candidate for House Speaker, calling him a “RINO” and “a disaster for anything having to do with the word Republican.”
Bowers lost but the rancour endured. “I have been neutralized in their mind,” he said, referring to Trump’s supporters. “I am not a factor.”In the new Republican Party, grassroots supporters have taken it upon themselves to enforce loyalty to Trump by identifying and vilifying Republicans they see as out of step with the leader.
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