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The Justin Amash Test

Republicans are spreading flagrant lies and corrupting the Freedom Caucus to serve Donald Trump.
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

The next time a Republican politician claims to put principle before partisanship, ask what he or she did when Representative Justin Amash came under attack.

The Michigan Republican, elected in 2010 at the height of the Tea Party wave, has always presented himself as a libertarian-leaning adherent of limited government. And he has always voted exactly as by FreedomWorks.

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