{"id":132920,"date":"2026-05-18T10:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/trump-got-his-revenge-against-cassidy-but-will-cassidy-get-his-revenge-against-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:08:36","slug":"trump-got-his-revenge-against-cassidy-but-will-cassidy-get-his-revenge-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/trump-got-his-revenge-against-cassidy-but-will-cassidy-get-his-revenge-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump got his revenge against Cassidy, but will Cassidy get his revenge against Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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After Donald Trump left the White House in early 2021, many prominent figures in Republican politics assumed that he\u2019d effectively set his political career on fire. By any sane measure, this was an understandable assumption: The then-former president had just plotted to seize illegitimate power and bore responsibility for an insurrectionist attack on his own country\u2019s seat of government.<\/p>\n

The idea that Trump would maintain a leadership role in American politics wasn\u2019t just wrong; at the time, it seemed utterly ridiculous.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, when the then-former president was impeached for his role in trying to overturn the results of a free and fair election, several GOP officials felt comfortable voting their conscience instead of toeing the party line. Indeed, the impeachment vote was the most bipartisan in the nation\u2019s history: 10 House Republicans voted to hold Trump accountable, as did seven Senate Republicans.<\/p>\n

Almost all of those 17 GOP lawmakers are now gone from Capitol Hill<\/a>, and one will soon join them: Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana suffered an embarrassing loss<\/a> on Saturday, finishing third in his primary race and failing to advance to a June runoff. Six years after winning re-election by a 40-point margin, the incumbent finished with just under 25%<\/a> of the intraparty vote.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no great mystery as to what happened: The incumbent president set out to destroy Cassidy for his 2021 impeachment vote, and Trump succeeded in his goal. The senator had spent the last year and a half trying to thread a partisan needle \u2014 up to and including confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the nation\u2019s health secretary, in direct contradiction<\/a> to the senator\u2019s ostensible principles about medicine and public health \u2014 but those efforts ultimately amounted to nothing.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, however, the dynamic that\u2019s worth appreciating isn\u2019t just whether Trump got his revenge against Cassidy, but also whether Cassidy might yet get some revenge against Trump.<\/p>\n

MS NOW\u2019s report<\/a> highlighted a notable quote from the senator\u2019s concession speech:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn\u2019t turn out the way you want it to. But you don\u2019t pout, you don\u2019t whine, you don\u2019t claim the election was stolen,\u201d Cassidy said as applause from supporters overtook him in a speech after his loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the same concession speech<\/a>, the Louisiana Republican added, \u201cLet me just set the record straight: Our country is not about one individual. It is about the welfare of all Americans, and it is about our Constitution. And if someone doesn\u2019t understand that and attempts to control others by using the levers of power, they\u2019re about serving themselves. They\u2019re not about serving us. And that person is not qualified to be a leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSteve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of\u00a0MaddowBlog\u00a0and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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