Rep. Chris Jacobs spoke out about gun control on Friday, May 27. Three days later, conservative leaders launched an effort to find a primary challenger. (via MaddowBlog)
"If you stray from a party position, you are annihilated,” Jacobs said. “For the Republicans, it became pretty apparent to me over the last week that that issue is gun control — any gun control.” ... “This requirement of 100 percent fealty or else is not good for our democracy, and certainly is one reason not much gets done in Washington, D.C.,” Jacobs said Friday.
Jacobs’ congressional career did not begin in the usual way. In August 2018, in this same New York congressional district, then-Rep. Chris Collins was arrested and faced corruption allegations. The Republican was soon after re-elected to Congress anyway, but his career was cut short: Collins ultimately pleaded guilty and resigned in October 2019.
Indeed, what’s perhaps most striking about Jacobs’ decision is what we’re learning about the uncrossable lines in GOP politics. Republican members get arrested and are charged with corruption? “Let’s not be too hasty,” the GOP says. Members associate with white nationalists? “They probably didn’t mean anything by that,” the GOP says. Members refuse to honor the results of free and fair elections? “No problem at all,” the GOP says.
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