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Actually, Republicans Are Standing Up to Trump
With measures on Russia and the Mueller investigation, the GOP is imposing checks on a reckless president.
Flake: Standing up.
Photographer: Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesThe diligence of congressional Republicans in holding Donald Trump's presidency in check has so far inspired little confidence. Even some Republicans have been disappointed. "To carry on in the spring of 2017 as if what was happening was anything approaching normalcy required a determined suspension of critical faculties," Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona wrote. "And tremendous powers of denial."
All true. Yet this may be changing. Republicans are slowly, and perhaps even surely, beginning to use their constitutional authority to put some limits on a reckless presidency. It's a shift that should be recognized -- and encouraged.