The big problem nervous Rs face is that Trump's recent behavior is just a continuation of what he's been doing since day one. So acting against him is an implicit admission that Democrats and Never Trumpers were right 1/ washingtonpost.com/politics/growi…
Psychologists and business strategy experts talk about the problem of "escalation of commitment" — both people and organizations often double down on bad strategies because they refuse to admit previous error 2/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalatio…
I suspect that Trump's own behavior reflects the same thing: in a way he caved in to Erdogan bc he can't admit that his previous concessions to dictators have gone badly; he may even be doing the Doral G-7 thing bc he can't admit that previous malfeasance is a problem 3/
The thing is, escalation of commitment usually ruins individuals' own lives; sometimes it dooms business organizations. Now it may doom America's reputation, and maybe world peace 4/
