PEACE IN OUR TIME: Mike Lee predicts backlash after RNC smothers delegate rebellion.

“Instead of focusing on a message that could truly unite the party, you’ve got all these people in there who are shouting about, ‘Darn it, we’ve got to be united,’” Lee said, his voice rising. “And to be united we’ve got to shut you guys up. We’ve got to lock up the rules, so that anyone who disagrees with us will be silenced. That’s how we’re going to be unified.”

There’s been a lot of that this year from both sides, so there was going to be backlash no matter who won the rules fight.