‘He’s free of all the politics’: How Thom Tillis became what passes for a GOP rebel in DC • Asheville Watchdog

‘He’s free of all the politics’: How Thom Tillis became what passes for a GOP rebel in DC • Asheville Watchdog

WASHINGTON — Sure, Sen. Thom Tillis has become the most visible, outspoken Republican insider critic of the second Trump administration. But don’t mistake Tillis for a maverick. The North Carolina senator is being who he’s long been, the sort of GOP stalwart known as an establishment Republican. A Republican who’s conservative on fiscal issues, usually pragmatic on other stuff. A Chamber of Commerce Republican. A Bush-Romney Republican. “Thom Ti…