The only woman in Republican Senate leadership complained about cancel culture on Monday, regarding the imminent removal of Liz Cheney, the only woman in Republican House leadership, because she opposes Donald Trump’s big lie that the presidential election was stolen.

On Monday, the trainer of the horse that won the Kentucky Derby but then returned a positive drugs test claimed to be a victim of cancel culture himself.

House minority leader Kevin McCarthy has calculated that capitulating to Trump, as has most of the party, is his best path to winning the House in the midterm elections next year.

“I’d be worried if I was him … You have people like me – who are here to do the right thing for all the right reasons and have an expectation of leadership – that are, shall we say, disgusted with the internal squabbling that results from having weak leadership.

The anonymous Republican also accused McCarthy of having no moral compass, given his refusal to act against the rightwing extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene, from Georgia, and the Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, who faces allegations of drug use and sex with an underage girl, which he denies.

In a letter to his party on Monday, McCarthy said: “This is no time to take our eye off the ball