Conservative never Trumper Jennifer Rubin documents the moral vacuity of the Malignant Loser's captive party, who never have a line that he can't cross with impunity. Whether it's racism, anti-Semitism, incitement of insurrection, or tossing the Constitution aside so he could remain Maximum Leader, he's still their guy:
"Defeated former president Donald Trump, within the space of two weeks, sat down to dine with two antisemites (one of whom later declared his love of Hitler) and declared on Truth Social that the U.S. Constitution should be subject to “termination” so he could be installed as president. Rarely has an authoritarian insurrectionist under criminal investigation for attempting to overthrow the government issued so candid a confession. [snip]
In a healthy democracy with two sane, stable and pro-democratic parties, it never would have come to this. In such a world, Republicans never would have nominated and elected in 2016 an openly racist character who fanned birtherism; Republicans never would have renominated him and never would have acquitted him twice in impeachment hearings. Republicans in our parallel universe would have disowned him after Jan. 6, 2021. repudiated him when he issued antisemitic insults and continued to lie about 2020. They would have disowned him when he renounced fidelity to the Constitution."
Over the years, the Malignant Loser's been emboldened by the fear he brings out in his sycophants and enablers in his corrupt, rotted out authoritarian party. He knows that Federal and state criminal and civil court cases are about to crash down on him. In his delusion, he thinks that a coup installing him as President-for-life will give him immunity from prosecution, especially if he can shred the Constitution in the process.
The abject cowardice and lack of patriotism of his party is made abundantly clear every time a new, horrific line is crossed. But to see this as a new phenomenon for the Republican Party is wrong, as you'll recall Nixon's infamous racist "Southern Strategy," and Reagan's "states rights" dog whistles over the years among other signs of early right-wing rot. You'll be waiting a very long time for the Malignant Loser's party to squeak up against the monster that perfected and distilled their "message" over time.
