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The GOP's secret anti-Trump brigade is running out of time

Republican “Defiance” Is Mostly Exit-Ramp TheaterThe Story Beneath the FramingThe article’s surface plot is Republican infighting over Donald Trump’s agenda: a few senators are blocking his filibuster gamble, resisting a settlement slush fund, and slowing his election-overhaul push. But the real political fact is simpler and uglier: congressional Republicans remain largely obedient, and the small number of holdouts are acting mostly from calculation, not conviction.Trump Still Sets the TermsTrump is not being checked by a principled institutional bloc. He is being slowed by a party that still…

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