No one ever wins that award on either side (or they win it exactly once, like Jeff Flake). That is the nature of representative democracy. You represent your constituents, you keep your job. We blame our elected officials, while ignoring the fact that tens of millions of voters in gerrymandered districts love their own biased and endlessly repeated talking points more than kids who are victims of mass shootings.

There is a potential path forward right now. At this moment most primaries have happened, and a large number of GOP representatives have survived being primaried, and are in non-competitive general races. They actually have a narrow window to vote for a rational policy and against their constituents and hope that their choice will not damage them in 2.5 years. Unlikely, as the GOP base that votes in primaries has largely gone off an ideological cliff, and lives primarily to punish RINO's (and "own" liberals). A small hope, but that is all we have.