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Rep. Tom Emmer dropped his bid for speaker of the House of Representatives, just hours after he secured the nomination, with former President Donald Trump and dozens of Republican lawmakers expressing opposition to his candidacy.
Lemmings don’t actually do that; Disney threw lemmings off a cliff because it made for a more compelling documentary:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilderness-lemming-suicide/
This makes the analogy even more apt.
“Trump said no and drove the lemmings off the cliff”