Rep. Don Bacon walks to a vote on May 14. Tom Brenner for The Washington Post/Getty Images/File

Rep. Don Bacon is leaving Congress next year — and offering some of the sharpest criticism to date of President Donald Trump of anyone in his party.

Bacon, a Republican who has represented a Nebraska swing district for the past eight years, says the GOP has departed from the conservative ideology that had dominated the party for decades. Instead, under Trump, he contends that the party has taken an insular turn and an isolationist approach to the world and protectionist economic policy — both of which, he warned, make the US less secure.

In a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Manu Raju, Bacon raised concerns over Trump and the First Amendment in the wake of controversy over the suspensio

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