Politics Trump Is Now Taking Out GOP Incumbents for No Reason The president sees his party’s senators as obligated to be doormats. This week, he reminded them that there are consequences for being anything else. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Danielle Villasana/Getty Images and Stewart F. House/Getty Images. Sign up for the Surge , the newsletter that covers the most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that sees the cage-match construction at the White House and wonders how long it will be before President Donald Trump announces the America 250 pole-dancing contest on the Washington Monument. This week, we’ve got a lot of Texas, where the filthy tricks and locker-room slurs have only just begun. Markwayne Mullin has a brilliantly dumb idea he’s workshopping. The DOJ is reportedly going after a woman who sought legal recourse against Trump years ago.…