From Infidel753:
Whatever Republican governor, senator, or functionary you are pointing to as being one of the few “good” ones, I would counter that if that person remains a member of the Republican party, then to that extent he or she is implicitly legitimizing it in its embrace of Trump’s attacks on secular democracy and on fundamental human decency. Show me his letter of resignation from the Republican party and I’ll admit he may be a decent human being on some level. Not before.
This is all the more true since the election, as the party en masse has followed Trump into the realm of sedition. (Not “treason”, a word which is thrown around a lot but requires an actual state of war — “sedition”, meaning attempting to overthrow the legitimate authority, is the accurate word for what Trump and his enablers are doing.) People have debated whether Republicans’ support of (or at least failure to condemn) Trump’s election-stealing efforts is due to fear of Trumpanzee rage and of Trump’s anticipated power as a Republican kingmaker after his term ends, or due to them genuinely having no more respect for democracy than he does. My view is that it doesn’t matter.
Look at cases like Gabriel Sterling and Brad Raffensperger of Georgia, widely lauded for denouncing Trump’s rhetoric which has inspired death threats against Republican officials and workers who failed to subvert the election on Trump’s behalf. Where were they for the last four years of Trumpian venom denouncing the media as “enemies of the people”, encouraging armed mobs, and ultimately inspiring a plot to kidnap and murder governor Whitmer of Michigan?