Amash attempts Michigan comeback: Can a libertarian still win in Trump’s GOP?

Published April 18, 2024 9:00pm ET



Former Rep. Justin Amash served in Congress for exactly one decade, with his final years in Washington, D.C., featuring him dramatically quitting the GOP, voting to impeach former President Donald Trump, and deciding not to run for reelection. At the time, in 2019, he said Congress’s corruption was worse than in the famous Netflix series House of Cards and decried the two-party system as “an existential threat to American principles and institutions.”

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