Kinzinger says the battle with Trumpism has to be fought in public

“I think if you put any leader today, with the exception of a few, on a lie detector and said, ‘Do you want Trump here or not?’ They’d all say, ‘No, we’re done with him.’ But the problem is they’re waiting for this organic movement to throw the president out,” Kinzinger said in an interview on “The Long Game,” a Yahoo News podcast.

“The problem is that’s not going to happen because nobody is presenting a counter view,” he said. “So I am intentionally being more public and loud, not because I want to be known or anything like that, but because nobody else is.”…

He has been censured by Republicans in his home state, publicly maligned by members of his extended family and received death threats.

“But every day I’m committed to doubling down on it because somebody needs to hear the alternative message, which is [that] even Democrats want a healthy Republican Party and we are very sick at the moment,” he said.