Yet another cowardly Republican proves he can't quit Trump

Most people running for president would try to hide—or at least downplay—the worst, most dangerous thing they’d ever done, but Donald Trump is a special kind of boy. He’s embraced the ruffians who besieged the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, going so far as to call the currently incarcerated among them “hostages” and “unbelievable patriots,” while regularly playing the J6 Prison Choir’s version of the national anthem at his rallies. (🎶 “And the spray for the bears/Mike Pence swinging in air/gave proof through the night/that our flagpole was still stuck in that dude’s face … over there!” 🎶)

But while Trump can’t help being Trump any more than a flesh-eating bacterium can stop devouring flesh—no matter how many Whole Foods avocado and pine nut kale salads you put in front of it—there are plenty of congressional Republicans with still-functioning consciences who understand what a menace Trump is to U.S. and Western democracy.

Sadly, all their spines stitched together would scarcely be enough to keep Lindsey Graham’s head upright in his Mar-a-Lago highchair.