New York Times: “Even as Mr. Trump’s takeover of his party is largely complete, a trio of heirs to the old guard have been among the most prominent dissenting voices. A high-profile club of elected Republicans — all descendants of the Republican establishment of the past, whether rebellious or resolute — has emerged as a kind of shadow conscience of the party during these days of turmoil.”
“Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland has been a leading voice of frustration over Mr. Trump’s management of the Covid-19 outbreak. He was also one of the few Republican governors to say, in 2016, that he would not support his party’s nominee. Instead he wrote in the name of his late father, Representative Lawrence J. Hogan, the only Watergate-era Republican in the House who voted to recommend all three articles of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon.”
“Rep. Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has been perhaps her party’s most persistent critic of Mr. Trump’s national security program. … Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, has made plain his disgust for Mr. Trump on a variety of occasions. (The feeling is mutual.) His father, George Romney, was a three-term governor of Michigan and a Republican presidential candidate who repeatedly ran afoul of the party’s orthodoxy on civil rights and Vietnam.”
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