An ‘endangered species’ loses ground

After Sen. Thom Tillis announced his opposition to Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, the president excoriated the North Carolina Republican and vowed to support a primary candidate against him next year. Tillis promptly declared that he was not running again, depriving Trump of leverage and reclaiming the “pure freedom” to speak his mind.

And speak he did. While Trump had promised to protect M…