Scorned Republican rips Trump's 'tremendous blunder'

Systemic Error Podcast · Jul 3, 2026 · 4m

Foreign Policy as a Loyalty TestPower FirstThis story is not really about Bill Cassidy’s wounded pride or his late-breaking criticism. It is about who gets to set the terms of Republican power, and the answer in the source is plain: Donald Trump does. He is endorsing challengers, punishing insufficient loyalty, and using the presidency as a personal enforcement machine.Cassidy, who lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger after voting to convict Trump in 2021, is now free to say what he would not say while dependent on the same system. That does not make him brave so much as liberated by…