Status Updates From Democracy Awakening: Notes ...

Republican senators had sacrificed democracy for power. The Republican Party was now the Trump Party.

[House Rep. Schiff said] You can’t trust this president to do the right thing. Not for one minute, not for one election, not for the sake of our country. He has betrayed our national security, & he will do so again. He has compromised our elections, & he will do so again. You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters even less. And decency not at all.

Republican lawmakers stayed behind Trump so long as he was delivering their wish list. In addition to the 2017 tax cut, which slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, Trump enabled Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to decimate the judiciary. During Trump’s term, McConnell churned through judicial nominees, putting in place more than 1 out of every 4 federal judges and, crucially, 3 Supreme Court justices.