Well, this may be the best quote in @CarolLeonnig's and @PhilipRucker's book.
A tfg advisor, on why it was so utterly insane for tfg to think that Pence would end American democracy to keep tfg in the White House:
“It’s the ultimate irony that a guy who acted like a total sycophantic pussy for four years, Trump wants him to be the Six Million Dollar Man at the end. Well, shit, the guy hasn’t stood up to anybody for four years ..."
"... and now you want him to stand up illegally, unconstitutionally to the United States Senate and the House of Representatives? Are you nuts? Have you looked at Mike Pence?”
It's just astounding the degree of contempt they all had for tfg, each other—and, in the end, because they all were shameless sycophants, themselves.
But in a way, it was just par for the course: This is what malignant narcissists do to the people who choose to support them.
Gee, maybe that senior tfg advisor was too hard on Pence. It turns out Pence courageously did his level best to figure out how to throw out the results of a free and fair election: 
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