Throughout the Trump years, Republican lawmakers devolved into invertebrates, conducting the people’s business in Congress like a pack of gelatinous meat sacks only capable of nodding along to the reckless whims and babbling nonsense of their leader.

But now, with midterm elections approaching and President Donald Trump’s approval rating rivaling that of syphilis, GOP lawmakers are starting to show the faintest signs of embryonic spines.

On June 3, the House passed a Democratic-led resolution to end the war in Iran. Four Republicans voted with the Democrats, a small but still remarkable rebuke of a president whose party members generally fight over who gets to agree with him more.

For Trump, any Republican defying him on Iran war is a 'bad Republican'

Predictably, Trump responded on social media in the early morning hours of June 4, lambasting the Republicans who dared to vote their conscience as “bad Republicans.” That’s a funny thing to say when you’re a Republican who started an unnecessary war that jacked up America’s fuel........

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