re: #199 Blind Frog Belly White

Mrs. FBW says similar - that, and suspecting that Trump has threatened family members of prominent Republicans.

I take the much more cynical attitude that Trump freed the GOP from having to put up any pretense of carrying about law, or truth, or democracy, or any of it.

This. Trump has freed Republicans to be the awful people they have truly wanted to be ever since the civil rights realignment, and they are loving it.