> I think a lot of reps are worried about retaliation from the POTUS,
As they should be, everyone from the GOP who has ever crossed the golden boy was destroyed by him. And now he has the richest man in the world to finance a campaign to destroy them.
The constituents matter far less to them than those two things. They made a Faustian bargain, and they care about keeping their jobs, which means doing what he tells them, not what you tell them.