Republicans Who Condemned Trump Are Being Condemned By the GOP

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One of the few lasting impacts of the odd, digital national conventions that took place last summer was the Republican abandonment of a party platform, as the GOP cited the pandemic as an opportunity to ditch concrete policy goals in order to “enthusiastically support” Trump and his “America-first agenda.” And though their candidate admitted defeat two months after the election, the platform of fealty remains true — even after the former president helped stir up an insurrection causing federal troops to deploy in the nation’s capital until the early Spring.

Despite initial reports that GOP leaders would consider exiling Trump from high office with an impeachment conviction in the Senate, lawmakers are mostly rallying behind a traditional party approach — doing nothing. As New York’s Jonathan Chait notes, “Senate Republicans are coalescing around a technical claim that Trump cannot be impeached because he has already left office, an argument at odds with the conclusion of most scholars, but which allows them to avoid casting firm judgment on Trump’s incitement. McCarthy, who last week said Trump ‘bears responsibility’ for the mob attack, now says, ‘I don’t believe he provoked it if you listen to what he said at the rally.’”

The movement to support Trump after his supporters sieged the Capitol is taking place at all levels of the party. At the top, the Washington Post reports that one RNC committeewoman has pressed party head Ronna McDaniel to push a resolution condemning the impeachment. And across the country, the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach the president on one article of incitement of insurrection have dealt with swift pushback for holding the president accountable. As the New York Times notes, almost all of those who voted to impeach Trump “have either already been formally censured by local branches of the G.O.P., face upcoming censure votes or have been publicly scolded by local party leaders.”

Liz Cheney, the third-highest-ranking Republican in the House, is navigating the most serious challenge in the wake of an impeachment vote: At least 107 GOP representatives, representing just over a majority of the House Republican vote, reportedly support removing Cheney from her leadership position on a secret ballot. Like her counterparts in South Carolina and Michigan, she is now facing a newly-inspired 2022 primary challenge for her rebuke of the president. According to the Washington Post, Trump is also prepared to help challengers running against representatives who broke the party vote on impeachment, with over $70 million in campaign cash squirreled away to do so.

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[madaboutharry]

1. Republicans are anti-democracy.

In fact, they hate democracy. They are fascists.

[Walleye]

2. And they love corruption and will do anything for money

[NJCher]

3. they will do the stupidest, most self-destructive thing they can do

Never mind their "candidate" will most likely be imprisoned or dead by the time the next election rolls around.

Never mind that their former Senate majority leader thinks he is a danger to the prospects of the republican party.

Never mind that financing their future campaigns will be nearly impossible because the corporate interests who use to bankroll them are saying no more support for this party.