Republicans cross President Trump at their peril, as Rep. Martha Roby discovered when primary voters in Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District pushed her into a runoff with the former Democrat she ousted in the red wave of 2010.

Roby, toward the conclusion of the 2016 presidential campaign, lashed Trump for his treatment of women after the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape was publicized during which the leader of the Republican Party bragged about committing actions that amount to sexual assault. Grassroots Republicans, loyal as ever to Trump, never forgot — or forgave.