

- MTG resigned despite no obviously threatening primary challenge.
- Boebert is running uncontested in the primary.
- The article notes of Mace: “Mace’s incessant political attention-seeking and often-bizarre behavior might well have alienated primary voters as much as the Epstein saga.”
- And notes of Massie: “Both Greene and Massie were bucking Trump on plenty of other things, too.”
Like it’s clear at least Massie is gone because he went against Trump and probably Mace too, but using a sample size of four to say “Yup, it’s the Epstein files” is obviously unsound.
The article is correct on the grounds that it is too simple to reduce it to that singular cause.























Lindsey Graham has been rumored for years to be closeted gay; the “ladybugs” thing specifically comes from a satire story (full text here) where Graham calls the moles on his taint his “little ladybugs”.