Perhaps, many anti-Trump Republicans thought, the gruesome, indelible nature of the January 6 attack, coupled with the fact that the president would soon leave the White House, had finally broken Trump’s grip on the GOP. “I remember at the time, somebody said to me, ‘I slept okay last night because I know Trump’s done now,'” says Sarah Longwell, founder of Republican Voters Against Trump, a PAC that spent $10 million in 2020 to defeat Trump. “I remember saying at the time, ‘I would not bet on that.'”