Trump got his revenge against Cassidy, but will Cassidy get his revenge against Trump?

After Donald Trump left the White House in early 2021, many prominent figures in Republican politics assumed that he'd effectively set his political career on fire. By any sane measure, this was an understandable assumption: The then-former president had just plotted to seize illegitimate power and bore responsibility for an insurrectionist attack on his own country's seat of government.

The idea that Trump would maintain a leadership role in American politics wasn't just wrong; at the time, it seemed utterly ridiculous.