re: #125 ericblair

This is my thinking as well. Besides a bunch of Congresscritters who are obviously backing up Trump no matter what, there are some Senators that are doing the same and acting oddly: Grassley and McConnell come to mind. Something feels off in their reactions. They’re not acting like partisan assholes who are trying to keep a Republican Senate together, but instead they’re covering for Trump at what looks like increasing risk to themselves. I can’t decide about Graham yet.

There’s a different feel between self-interested damage containment on one hand, and on the other covering for an increasingly unhinged and unreliable interloper who has never done them any favors. If there is ever a proper reckoning of this, the Republican party is dead.

Could be… but never attribute to blackmail what stupidity (and knee-jerk loyalty to party) will explain. At least not without qualifications.