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In reply to the discussion: Trump won't be convicted in the Senate, and that's okay. [View all]matt819
(10,749 posts)Voting no does not make them accountable. To anyone. For anything.
They don't care. Membership in the cult is more important.
Voting no means they lose funding from RW billionaires, the RNC, their constituents. The blessing from the one anointed by god means everything to them. Above all, they know their constituents. They are scared. Of everything. Jews. Muslims. Non-white people. George Soros. Women. Gays. Young people, Greta specifically. And those constituents will continue to vote for them because they believe that their senator is the only one able to hold back the black, brown, female, and gay hordes. They will vote for him despite the evidence that RW policies are largely responsible for their economic plight.
Many of them are rich. And whether or not they are, they get their pension once they leave office. They'll be fine. Many of them will get sinecures from the RW universe - fox, Heritage, American Enterprise, etc. They will become lobbyists. There is no shame, largely because they don't believe they are wrong. And the world they live in reinforces this over and over and over. They don't care about their legacy because republicans don't care about this country or about its long-term health. They care only about themselves, and, again, they believe that have done nothing wrong. To them, they are on the right side of history.
Reports that unnamed republicans are disgusted with trump are BS. Because, see above.