What Devin Nunes reveals about Donald Trump's Republican Party

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021 9:35 PM GMT

For a very long time, the best way to be someone in politics was to get elected to Congress -- and then climb your way up the seniority ranks until you became a chairman of a committee in the House or Senate.

Donald Trump changed a whole lot of things about politics over his four years in office -- and this arc for ambitious politicians is one of the big ones.

No longer is getting elected to Congress -- and serving in the House or Senate -- the gold standard of how to matter in Republican politics. Instead, political power is now judged by one's closeness to Trump.

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