Seeing a lot of pieces about why GOP politicians are standing behind Trump even though they know he grotesquely abused power and betrayed US interests. Usually framed in terms of primary challenges, etc. But is this overthinking? 1/
There's a lot of evidence from state-level races that the modern GOP just doesn't consider it legitimate for Dems to hold power, no matter what. By this standard, doing whatever it takes to keep Ds out, even if it involves colluding with foreign powers 2/ eu.usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
And/or massively abusing the power of office is perfectly OK. In other words, no reason to believe that most Rs are really troubled by revelations about Trump's actions. Dems are the enemy, and rule of law is just something they pretend to care about 3/
