Why Republicans Continue to Support Trump

Here's my best explanation/theory about why those 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives, and 17 Republican state attorneys general, signed amicus curiae briefs in support of the attempt by Texas to get the U. S. Supreme Court to disallow the votes in swing states Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia that went for Biden in the Presidential election.

Republicans were traumatically horrified when Obama won not once, but twice, and against two mainstream, highly regarded, mainstream candidates. When Trump beat Hillary, even more loathed by Republicans than Obama, Trump won the inchoate love of many otherwise sane Republicans. They support Trump now because they want, against all odds, to somehow hold on to that evil magic.  To keep that sick hope alive.

The Supreme Court wisely threw out the Texas attempt to overthrow the election.   Biden will take the oath of office on January 20, 2020.  But it will take a lot more than one Supreme Court decision to put the fascist, racist rage back in the hole from which it emerged.

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