“What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?” a senior Republican official was quoted as saying in The Washington Post. The blind quote, oft repeated, became an instant classic in the genre of “takes that did not age well.” It was held up as a dark marker of where things stood for a party that stood idly by while Trump solicited foreign campaign help and mocked war heroes and disabled reporters and entire ethnic minorities and it only got worse. “Humoring him” had essentially become the GOP platform.
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