New York Times: “Ever since he vaulted to the leadership of the Republican Party eight years ago, the same Republicans who once deemed him a ‘kook,’ a ‘pathological liar’ and a ‘delusional narcissist’ nonetheless have come around to endorse handing him the nuclear codes. Even many of those who called him out for trying to overturn an election that he lost are now willing to entrust him again with the future of American democracy.”
“Given Mr. Trump’s enduring popularity with the party base and willingness to punish apostates, the lesson of recent years has been that nearly everyone hoping for a future in Republican politics feels the need to swallow any past criticism and fall in line. Even some Republicans no longer aspiring to hold public office have buried their apprehensions to stay with the choice of the party’s voters.”
