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For context, this is the cover of a 2010 book. These were going to be the guys. Surely one of this bunch will be president some day.
Eric Cantor was the House Majority Leader. That's a pretty big deal. He got primaried by a tea partier in 2014. It seems quaint now, but it was a big fucking deal at the time. Never has there been someone so high ranking that the party's electorate kicked out. Cantor was in good standing, but their public was becoming a monster.
The other two were more recently chewed up, but I'll let someone else tell those stories.