Does Roy Blunt’s retirement signal the end of the old GOP?

This appeared in The Millennial Source

Missouri Senator Roy Blunt is the latest Republican to announce he will not be running for reelection in 2022. The retirements of Blunt and a number of his Republican colleagues may signal a win for Trump-era Republicans looking to gain more power within the party.

Recent election results and slew of retirement announcements appear to have signaled that the Republican Party is in the midst of something like an identity crisis.

Missouri Senator Roy Blunt is the latest Republican to announce he will not be running for reelection in 2022. The retirements of Blunt and a number of his Republican colleagues may signal a win for Trump-era Republicans looking to gain more power within the party.

Roy Blunt has spent the last 26 years in Congress as a high-ranking member of the GOP. He is considered the fourth highest ranking Republican in the Senate and serves on a number of committees.

“I felt good about getting elected, but what I felt less good about was whether I wanted to go from 26 years in the Congress to 32 years in the Congress and maybe eliminate the other things I might get a chance to do,” he told reporters after his announcement.