WASHINGTON — Adam Kinzingers Lonely Mission

WASHINGTON - Six-term Illinois lawmaker Adam Kinzinger and Enemy No. 1, who are trying to denounce and clean up leaders who are not locked up with Donald Trump after being censored by the Republican Party, are not only dissatisfied with their party. His own family, some of whom rejected him.

Two days after Kinzinger called for Trump to step down after the January 6 riots in the Capitol, 11 members of his family sent him a two-page handwritten letter saying he was in Cahut with the "Devil's Army" for a public holiday. With the President.

"Oh my, how disappointed you are us and God!" They wrote. "You embarrassed Kinzinger and the family name!"

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The author of the letter was Karen Otto, Caringer's cousin, who had paid $paid to send Kinzinger's father via certified mail - to make sure Congress saw it, which he did. She also sent copies to Republicans across Illinois, along with other members of the state congressional delegation.

"I want to leave Adam," she said.

Representing the crescent-shaped districts in Chicago's suburbs, the two-year-old Air National Guard pilot is at the forefront of efforts to navigate post-Trump politics. He is betting on his political career, business connections and a wing of his extended family that his party's future lies in rejecting Trump and the conspiracy theories pointed out by the former president.

Kingsinger was not the only one of the three House Republicans to vote both to impeach Trump and to remove Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Green from the committee. During the House impeachment debate, he asked Democrats if he could speak seven minutes longer than his allotted time, so that he could make more authoritative and bipartisan arguments against the president; Request denied.

He has taken his case to the national media, becoming ubiquitous in cable television, late-night HBO programming and podcasts. He launched a new political action committee with a political minute video announcing the need to transform the Republican Party into an ideal version of George W. Bush's party - low taxes, protection of rights and social conservatism - without complaint. And the conspiracy theories that Trump and his allies have made the center of the party's identity.

In an interview, Kinsinger demanded that the party unveil the tactics it feared would eliminate it and offer an optimistic alternative.

“We’re just scared,” he said. "Fear the Democrats," he said. Fear the future. Be afraid of everything. And it works for an election cycle or two. The problem is that it's really damaging to democracy. "

Kinsinger said the Senate's failure to prosecute Trump in Saturday's impeachment trial did not stop him.

"We have a lot of work to do to rebuild the Republican Party and turn to private policy," he said.

Now there is the classic challenge of political Mavericks seeking to prove Kinsinger's independence: His stubborn and uncompromising nature is in the rankings of Republicans who are trying to involve him in the party's re-establishment mission.

His anti-Trump stance has angered Republicans in his county, with some likening him to a Democrat and Republicans in Illinois resenting him because he thinks more about his national influence than his relationship with them.

“He doesn’t seem to have a running camera or microphone,” said Larry Smith, the LA Sal County GOP chairman who accused Kinzinger last month. "He used to talk to us in the good old days."

Kinzinger does not forget about his priorities.

“The central and northern side of Illinois deserves an explanation and it deserves my attention, they get it,” he said. "But to what extent do I pay attention to the national news because I can turn everyone's heart on the central and northern side of Illinois, and it doesn't fall to the party as a whole. I think it's a big fight."

Kinsinger has won the approval of Democrats, but it is not a progressive idea of ​​anyone. Her campaign website has long voiced her long-standing opposition to the Affordable Care Act, which opposes an increase in abortion rights and taxes. He first won a seat in Congress with the support of Sarah Palin.