With Mark Sanford's defeat yesterday, one thing is becoming clear; for Republicans to win their primaries, they cannot criticise Donald Trump. While being critical of a sitting president has always been a difficult position for any elected official of the same party, the problem has never been this severe.
How did we get here? We got here because GOP partisanship overwhelmed values and standards. Appeasing the bully not only emboldened him, it also made obsequious subservience normal. Once critical mass was reached (which it evidently has been), resistance from individual Republicans is useless. The wall, the one that insulates Republicans from accountability for deceit, has been well and truly built.
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