The Republican party is full of sleazy, disgusting cowards. It's got itself into a fix because most GOP politicians have been afraid for years to speak
out against Trump. Most of them know he's corrupt and dishonest and completely unfit for any public office, much less the presidency--but they fear losing the crazy MAGA vote and losing their seats. Anybody who actually endorses the gangster after Jan. 6 is genuinely sick and should not be in public office himself or herself.
I mean, look at Mike Pence. Is there a more pathetic politician in America? We had a president who spent days/weeks trying to bully and humiliate his vice president--a man who was little more than trump's lap dog for four years--because he wouldn't/couldn't help the gangster try to subvert the election. He then puts Pence in physical danger by denigrating him in front of the redneck mob on Jan. 6. Pence knows that the gangster lied and tried a coup--and yet he has only spoken out against trump in recent months in the softest and most diplomatic way. Why? Because HE'D like to be president (never happen) and he doesn't want to alienate MAGA. If he were smart and had any guts, he should have spent recent months trashing trump, as he deserves to be trashed. He might lose the rubes but he'd gain more respect from a lot of other voters.
Look at DeSantis. He's been almost the same way. The guy is loathsome--a bully and almost as bad as the gangster--but he's been very careful about his criticisms of Trump---for the same reason. He doesn't want to antagonize the rubes--even has Trump mocks him and everybody else, which is about all the gangster does. Trump's basic campaign tactic is to mock people--and people who like that sort of behavior are pretty crude and uncivilized themselves, like trump. Anybody who thinks the gangster--who will be indicted for other crimes, I'm sure, in the next few months--or anybody else is going to win the next presidential election with just the MAGA vote is going to be in for a rude awakening. Republican voters are dumb if they choose to nominate the dangerous and mentally sick man known as trump again.