In Florida, a Republican candidate has publicly broken with Donald Trump over the reach of his immigration agenda, declaring it has gone too far — a rare act of intraparty dissent on the issue most central to Trump's political identity. The moment arrives as electoral contests approach, forcing fellow Republicans to choose between loyalty, silence, or a similar reckoning. It is a small but telling fracture in a coalition that has long held immigration as its most unifying ground, raising the deeper question of whether a party can sustain absolute positions indefinitely without eventually confr