Apparently, the Freedom Caucus zealots missed the election of a non-conservative populist president with few, if any, objectives other than maintaining public adoration. So long as there is a president willing to go to the left to pass his agenda, the Freedom Caucus becomes largely irrelevant. Democrats, if they have not already realized this, should understand that they have more power than the ideologically inflexible Freedom Caucus. To recap, the Freedom Caucus has far less power than it thinks, as do groups like Heritage Action that want to enforce conservative orthodoxy despite popular opposition. Welcome to the demise of the Freedom Caucus.

Source: Washington Post November 17, 2016 16:45 UTC