Defending the indefensible. Of all the people who swallowed their concerns about a trump presidency, the only reason I've heard is from Ted Cruz. He said was that he had a responsibility to the wishes of his constituents. The other repubs fell in line because they didn't want to lose their power. Most said they changed their minds after getting to know him. Which is bullshit because the longer he was in office, the worse he got.
In the following link (it's a long one so I didn't include the whole thing) the comments by Johnson, as well as others, are not the type that go away as you get to know someone. There's no mistaking the traits that cause the comments by all these people.
Speaker Mike Johnson bluntly asserted that
Mr. Trump was unfit to serve and could be a danger as president.
“The thing about Donald Trump is that he lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House,” Mr. Johnson wrote in a lengthy post on Facebook on Aug. 7, 2015, before he was elected to Congress and a day after the first Republican primary debate of the campaign cycle.
Challenged in the comments by someone defending Mr. Trump, Mr. Johnson
responded: “I am afraid he would break more things than he fixes. He is a hot head by nature, and that is a dangerous trait to have in a Commander in Chief.”
In 2015, Mr. Johnson, who would announce his first run for Congress the next year,
wrote that he was horrified as he watched Mr. Trump’s debate performance with his wife and children.
What bothered me most was watching the face of my exceptional 10 yr old son, Jack, at one point when he looked over at me with a sort of confused disappointment, as the leader of all polls boasted about calling a woman a ‘fat pig.’”
In one of the most famous exchanges from that debate, Megyn Kelly, a moderator and then a Fox News host, asked Mr. Trump about his history of referring to women as “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.”
“Only Rosie O’Donnell,” Mr. Trump responded. He added that the country’s problem was political correctness, something he didn’t have time for.
Mr. Johnson was horrified.
Can you imagine the noble, selfless characters of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln or Reagan carrying on like Trump did last night?” wrote Mr. Johnson, an evangelical Christian. He noted that voters needed to demand a “much higher level of virtue and decency” than what he had just witnessed.
In 2015, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called Mr. Trump a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot,” as well as a “kook,” “crazy” and a man who was “unfit for office.” He went on to serve as Mr. Trump’s most loyal defender in the Senate.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the second-to-last man left standing in the 2016 Republican primary race, called Mr. Trump a “pathological liar” who was “utterly amoral,” a “serial philanderer” and a “narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen.” Mr. Cruz has explained his decision to become a loyal defender of Mr. Trump as something that was a “responsibility” to his constituents.
Mick Mulvaney, the former Republican congressman who went on to serve as the president’s acting chief of staff, in 2016 called his future boss a “terrible human being” who had made “disgusting and indefensible” comments about women.
Unlike the other lawmakers who fell in line, however, Mr. Johnson has pitched himself as someone of deep religious convictions, whose worldview is driven by his faith."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/u...ald-trump.html
Many people in the United States felt the same way and used the same comments to describe trump. The difference was/is that regular people didn't have to suck up to keep their power. Trump has proven to be one of the most dishonest elected officials in the history of the U.S.
He is lazy and a danger to democracy. He has never tried to lead the whole country. It was never about anybody but the base. People who have trouble competing using a level field using the truth.
They claim fraud without evidence. The funny thing is that they admit dems are smarter than they are and believe out of the thousands of people required to pull the off their imagined steal, no one has come forward to reveal the master plan. It's easier to believe the impossible than it is to accept the fact trump has been rejected by the majority of the American voters. The idea the repubs still support trump after all the sleazy shit he has done doesn't even surprise me after seeing them in action.
Does the book "Dead Zone" come to mind as a solution?
... That'll show 'em!