The GOP punishes the man who was “too honest,” not the coup leader.
: a protest candidate whose support base lies largely outside his own party. The cost of Pence opposing Trump’s coup was to sacrifice his political career.
The most intelligent version of the case against indicting Trump is not that he should be permitted to commitcrimes he wishes. It is that prosecutors should bend over backward to avoid criminalizing political disputes or putting a former president in prison when there is room for discretion. The most logical process for punishing Trump for his coup attempt was impeachment, and Senate Republicans briefly entertained convicting Trump in the wake of the January 6 riot. But they first decided a trial needed to be slow in order to be legitimate, and then they decided they couldn’t impeach Trump after he had left office. Then they said the criminal justice system could handle it. “President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office…” Mitch McConnell said.
But it has since become clear the party’s future is entirely Trumpian. Trump is running away with the nomination, and the closest thing to a competitor he has, Ron DeSantis, refuses to even say that Trump lost the 2020 election. When the latest indictment came down, DeSantis issued a statement communicating solidarity with Trump:
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