Remember when the GOP took control of the House in the 2010 election? John Boehner had a hell of a time keeping the right flank in line. There were showdowns over the debt ceiling and shutdowns multiple times, and his big problem was that, eventually, he actually needed his own party to vote for the deals he cut. Some of them... didn't wanna... After a couple of years of this, Boehner needed to make an example of some hardliners. He picked three, and stripped them of their committee assignments.
You need to understand, this was a REALLY big deal. This is not a thing that is done. But, Boehner needed to show that he was serious. He picked three hardliners to punish: Dave Schweikert, Tim Huelskamp, and...
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Justin Amash.
He also punished a relative moderate-- Walter Jones.
Jones is dead, Schweikert is under a serious ethics investigation, and Huelskamp got primaried for being too conservative! That's right. The "establishment" primaried Huelskamp, and won! You never hear about that one, do you? Why not? Doesn't fit the conventional bullshit narrative.
Lesson for today, though? Justin Amash stands alone in the GOP.