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Is the G.O.P. Consciously Uncoupling from Trump?

According to the elite Republican operatives I surveyed after the Hutchinson testimony, a quiet estrangement is gradually accelerating.

Cassidy Hutchinson
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Mark Meadows, offering Jan. 6 testimony. Photo: Tom Williams/Getty Image
Tina Nguyen
June 29, 2022

I had scarcely begun composing a column about the movers and shakers of right wing activism, which seems to be establishing domestic policy at the whims of six people, when I got the alarm to turn on CSPAN immediately. The Jan. 6 panel, tasked with investigating and packaging the events surrounding the Capitol insurrection for a television audience, had thus far struggled to make the sorts of headlines that Democrats craved. (Fox News, in fact, had mostly declined to air much coverage of the hearings at all.)