Lindsey Graham is not a fan of America’s representational republic, and he’s more than willing to let his constituents know that. Last Thursday, the senator that was supposedly tasked with representing the people of South Carolina defiantly threw down the proverbial gauntlet. Graham let voters back home know that if they do not like outsourcing and amnesty, and there is a good chance they do not, then they could “vote him out.”

While discussing the immigration policy known as the Dream Act, which was started under former president Barack Obama, Graham spoke out against his voters who favor deporting the children of illegal aliens. Those kids, called DREAMers, are currently protected under the DREAM Act.

“I’m excited about giving you a chance to live the rest of your life in America,” said Graham in a press conference with liberal Illinois Democrat, Richard Durbin. “I embrace you, and I want you to succeed,” he said.

This is not the first time Graham has worked with Durbin and defiantly poked conservative voters in the eye over immigration. In 2013, he was one of four Republicans, who joined four Democrats, to write a very unpopular comprehensive immigration reform bill. This was rejected by Republican voters because it was seen as amnesty and it never addressed securing the border.

In the presser, Graham again seems to support legalizing those who came here illegally without solving the issue of how to prevent a new wave of illegal immigrants. Instead, of Graham deciding to defend the taxpayers who pay his salary, the people who put him into such a cushy job or his party’s leader, Graham decides to spurn them both and side with the kids of those who broke the law to come to America.

“To President Trump: You’re going to have to make a decision,” Graham said, continuing, “The campaign is over. To the Republican Party: Who are we? What do we believe? The moment of reckoning is coming. When they write the history of these times, I’m going to be with these kids.”

To pile on to the betrayal felt by conservative voters, very liberal Californians are touting the deep south Republicans move. This weekend, in the Mercury News, a newspaper covering the Bay Area, Silicone Valley area, came out to support Graham, “We don’t always agree with Graham. But on the Dream Act — providing a path to citizenship for immigrants who were brought here as children and have embraced the American dream — he is our hero.”

It is needless needling of conservatives that has earned Graham the third most disliked Congress member. In an April survey, Morning Consult found 40% of the people back home disapproving of the job their senior senator is doing. Only good friend and Arizona Senator, John McCain, and Kentucky Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, have higher negatives.

THAT is not going to go over well back home. Graham can be so bold because he does not face re-election until 2020. Voters are unlikely to remember this in 2 years when Graham faces a challenger.

Graham’s disrespectful, arrogant, “I am untouchable” attitude, coupled with his very hawkish positions in a war weary era, can explain why he did so poorly in this poll and the 2016 GOP presidential primaries.

Even with his history of going against the wishes of the people who voted him into office, and the party as a whole, in Graham’s last Senate campaign, he defeated easily Democrat Brad Hutto, 55-39%. Maybe this explains Mr. Graham’s emboldened attitude.

The stances, and attitude, of Graham are emblematic of a wing inside the Republican party that is becoming less and less relevant. A career politician, and fourteen year member of the Senate, was relegated to the “kiddie table debates,” while a political novice in candidate Donald Trump, was captivating the hearts of Republicans, and Democrats, with his “America First” message.

Now president, the New York billionaire preached a message defending the US worker and the US family, both of whom felt unheard by politicians like Graham.

After candidate Trump’s shocking win on November 8th, Graham vehemently promoting positions Americans soundly rejected makes it seems as if he has his fingers firmly jammed in his ears. Maybe the voters of South Carolina will take the long time statesman up on his offer, and send him packing.