Tom Nichols: “For years, Trump has been attacking and obliterating anything resembling virtue in the Republican Party. This is a process that has Republicans regularly taking their political souls out of their bodies, putting them in jars and displaying them on President Trump's cape. Called. (Ted Cruz’s rise from potential conscience of the 2016 Republican National Convention to Trump-praising and phone-banking savvy is just one such example.)”
“But some of the less-noticed enablers in the Republican Party are those who stay quiet despite Trump’s horrific attacks on others, rather than risk turning his anger and the MAGA crowd onto others. When challenged, they say just enough to excuse Trump, engaging in moral obfuscation that they should certainly know about on remotely uncomplicated issues like whether the presumptive Republican nominee should defame a woman who has been found liable. do. “Sexually abusive.”
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