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No, not really. He's always been a Convenient Conservative. He's a carpetbagger Baptist boy from somewhere in Texas who couldn't get elected dog catcher back home, so he moved to Oklahoma and took a high-visibility job at a Baptist summer camp (don't get knocked up, Susie) called Falls Creek and then ran for the State House, then State Senate, then US Senate, propped up by the Baptist vote all along.

Kinda like Milt and the mormon vote in Utah, and not far removed from Milt in terms of what kinda guy he really is. He'll stab the whole country in the ass for his own political benefit if he figures it's worth it, in whatever sick sort of way he thinks about things. Obviously.

Maybe Mitch promised to make him minority leader or something.

Oh, and back home, since you asked, he is being propped by some prominent Republicans who ought to know better, and "Conservative" talk radio. He isn't up again until 2028, so the thinking must be to just let it become status quo and the suckers will go along next time too.