As Lisa Simpson once said, "I don't usually give advice to help Republicans"

[chuckstevens]

But from a purely political stand point, why the hell aren't they turning on Trump?

[PdxSean]

1. Because they are Trump, and Trump is them.

Trump is the embodiment of republican and evangelical "christian" values. All that he is is all that they are, so asking them to turn against Trump is like asking them to turn against themselves.

[Cosmocat]

4. Well said

I told people that the day the POS came down the escalator ...

[NightWatcher]

2. The GOP is a Death Cult and someone just opened the KoolAid packets.

They've gone so deep that there's nowhere to go but ritual mass suicide. They didn't leave them an escape plan.

They will live and die by that idiot.

[Hortensis]

3. Wrong day for this. The GOP might have held PA's 18th

if Trump hadn't insisted on campaigning in person for their candidate, just needed a few hundred votes more. But, regardless of that visit, they lost a strong conservative district to a Democrat by tens of thousands of votes, and a large part of that is believed due to what trumpism has done to their party.

You could complain about the hard-cores instead. Those won't change until they finally accept Trump's a loser. Then they'll flock to some other awful person, perhaps Pence.

[Achilleaze]

5. Cult

Cult think. They really do think Dirty Donnie* is their God Emperor, and they worship the hate & chaos he exudes. A very sick pattern deeply embedded in the Latter Day Know Nothings. They want a daddy. Dirty Donnie and Pooty Poot fulfill that need for republicans.

* aka Comrade Casino, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Saboburns]

6. Republicans made us the enemy

We are to be hated, reviled, and fought against. And one day to be annihilated.

They see that we reject Donald Trump, ergo Donald Trump must be good.

Republicans will never turn on Trump and it is foolish to think they will. Rather they will always keep digging in the hole they find themselves. We will certainly peel off a certain percentage. But the reddest will turn even redder.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. The GOP went all in on Trump at the time of his nomination.

As the other poster said, there is no out for them, no exit or alternative strategy.

They had choices then and even still do, now, but to choose to disavow him now would mean being willing to eat a decade or two of massive losses and being out of power to reclaim their soul (because of alienating his racist core which is a huge bloc of GOP support cultivated since Nixon's Southern Strategy).

They've shown no indication of that. They'd rather cling to power any way they could and hope that they can cheat and voter suppress their way into staying in the saddle, even if it means selling out the country entirely to Putin in the process.

[Itchinjim]

8. Because they're assholes.

It's that simple.

[efhmc]

9. One word:

Power.

[Lee-Lee]

10. Because unless they can get him off the ticket in 2020

Their fates are tied to his.

[dsc]

11. because it won't help

People ran from Obama and Clinton like scalded dogs and they still lost. People know a vote for a GOP congressperson is a vote for Trump. They aren't stupid.

[hvn_nbr_2]

12. Kompromat

Remember that Russians hacked the Republicans' emails too. Lots of kompromat there. Being blackmailed is the only thing I can think of to explain Devin Nunes's bizarre behavior, for instance.

[poboy2]

13. Russians hacked the Republicans' emails too. Lots of kompromat there.

I am inclined to go in this direction as well.