“I certainly would have liked it if more of the impeachers weren’t driven from public life,” said Jonah Goldberg, an editor at The Dispatch and prominent Trump critic. “I find it remarkably depressing that the central litmus test of the Republican Party … is where you come down on a single personality.”

Of the rest of the 10 impeachment Republicans, four chose not to run again and three lost primary races to Trump-backed candidates. They include Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) and Rep. Jaime Herrera-Beutler, whose rather surprising defeats earlier this month brought another dark twist for conservative Trump critics.

“My view of where things are is quite a bit darker in recent weeks than it was even a few weeks ago,” said David French, another editor at The Dispatch and prominent conservative Trump critic…

Longwell said she never felt that scattered moments, like in Georgia, where more traditional Republicans prevailed were predictive of the rest of the country. But she also thought more impeachment Republicans would have survived.

“I thought Peter Meijer would be okay, I thought Herrera-Beutler would be okay,” she said. “It’s been worse than I thought.”