Why are the Republicans finally jumping ship?

[Sparkly]

Just today, we're seeing some die-hard, dug-in Republicans rolling over, and apparently ready to throw Trump under. Clearly it's related to the attack on the Capitol last Wednesday, but it still took days to see a budge. After four years of Trump's abject lawlessness, corruption, criminality, defiance, and mania, what do you think finally may have made even the last hold-outs consider going against him?

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	Their consciences finally weighed in.
	0 (0%)
	Once they saw the video, they realized how close and how severe the danger was to everyone there.
	0 (0%)
	Once they saw the video, they realized how close and how severe the danger was to them.
	3 (10%)
	It was beyond the pale that Donald didn't check in personally to ask how they were feeling.
	0 (0%)
	The costumes looked tacky.
	0 (0%)
	Calls and emails from constituents telling them to get Trump out of office.
	0 (0%)
	Clear evidence the insurgents were motivated by Trump's lies, and there would be more violence, making the lies politically risky for Republicans to continue.
	0 (0%)
	Money drying up in all the pipelines into the RNC coffers, along with Trump's, making him a liability.
	26 (84%)
	A combination of the above.
	2 (6%)
	None of the above.
	0 (0%)
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[pnwest]

1. Definitely the money drying up thing, but I do believe sedition and insurrection

might be a step too far for even them. But, then again, I keep assigning human-like qualities to these fuckers, so maybe I'm way off base....

[hadEnuf]

3. It's a step too far for the GOP now because it failed.

[Sparkly]

4. Ha!

I know what you mean. I am told I anthropomorphize my dogs. But they are beautiful, loving creatures, so that's different.

[Tarc]

2. He has become a liability to their political future

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Their corporate overlords have expressed displeasure

They have let it be known that insurrection is bad for business. These orders carry equal weight as utterances emanating from a burning bush.

[keithbvadu2]

6. CYA

[mopinko]

7. because blood is being spilled. white ppl's blood.

it's how this shit works.

[Hugin]

8. It's the moneys and only the moneys.

We've been through all of the others a hundred times over the past 12 years and nothing else has moved the needle.

[ecstatic]

9. I don't trust them. I think they're still planning a coup.

If it goes well, they'll be 100% on board. If it doesn't, then their jobs will still be safe.