‘This is the face of leadership!’ declares a flier posted in his western Carolina district.
HIGHLANDS, N.C. — House insurgent Mark Meadows embarrassed the White House and forced his fellow Republicans to turn tail on a seven-year pledge to tear down Obamacare.
His constituents are throwing him a party.
“This is the face of leadership!” declares a flier posted by the local tea party here in western North Carolina, urging supporters to turn out for a rally celebrating the three-term congressman who leads the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus. “Thank Mark and all those who gave us an opportunity to get health care right.”
Meadows — perpetual thorn in the side of GOP leadership, dismissed by institutional Republicans as a bomb-throwing saboteur and tarred by colleagues as a traitor — can still come home again.
In these small rural towns that double as ground zero for the type of populist, anti-establishment politics that thrust Donald Trump into the presidency and gave Republicans control of Washington, Meadows remains a hero. He demanded full repeal of Obamacare, more than the failed House bill would have attempted. And his star only shines brighter here after he cost House Republicans their first big win on health care — and their first big win as the governing party.
His constituents — roughly 45,000 of whom, ironically, were covered by the Affordable Care Act in 2016, most with subsidies, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation estimate — now expect him to go back to Washington and pick up the fight to uproot and destroy the law completely.
“I respect him for staying true to his principles,” said Jerry Moore, who runs the Kilwins Chocolates & Ice Cream shop in Highlands, N.C., the hometown that gave Meadows his political start. “Trump promised repeal. That was no repeal.”
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You mean their constituents don't care what the D.C. Pearl Clutchers think?
Shocking https://t.co/7BLKWWALGz
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) March 27, 2017
Back home, Freedom Caucus' Meadows hailed as anti-Obamacare hero https://t.co/bZ4SYtPHR3 pic.twitter.com/hGLXBy4hcU
— POLITICO (@politico) March 27, 2017
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