Donald Trump's last stand: How his desperate attempt to overturn the election failed

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Republicans cowered in terror until he was decisively beaten — then, at last, just enough of them stood up

By Lucian K. Truscott IV
February 13, 2021 1:00PM (UTC)

Many things have confounded me about Donald Trump over the last five years, but perhaps most confounding has been the spectacle of so many Republicans cowering and shivering in fear of his almighty tweets. I simply could not understand why they were so afraid of him. Yeah, I read all of the analysis pointing to the likelihood that if Republicans didn't go along with Trump's every little whim, he would insure they were "primaried" the next time they came up for election. They were in fear for their political careers, it was said. I got it. I've watched many men during my lifetime exhibit abject cowardice in the face of nothing more fearsome than an unreasonable asshole of a boss. Some of them had wives and kids and mortgages and didn't want to lose their jobs. Others simply got comfortable where and were willing to put up with crap from their superiors so they could stay put. So it's understandable, if hardly commendable, that so many Republicans lived in dread of the fearsome Tweeter in Chief.

I waited in vain for some Republican, any Republican to stand up to him. In the end, it took losing re-election for Trump to appear wounded enough that Republicans, or at least a few of them, began to show some backbone. After he was beaten and on the ground, a few of them finally decided it was safe to give him a few kicks.

This week, Democratic House managers described Trump's campaign to intimidate Republicans around the country into helping him overturn the election.. They showed how a few of them stood up to him as if suggesting to the senators in his party that they could risk his wrath and survive, too.

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Pence stood up to Trump and was in the middle of overseeing the certification of the electoral votes when Trump sent his mob of looters, racists and militia members to attack the Capitol. More than 140 Republicans in the House and Senate caved to Trump's pressure and objected to the electoral ballots from two states — even after a full day of televised violence — but all the Democrats and the other Republicans in both houses voted them down. In the wee hours of Jan. 7, Vice President Pence and Speaker of the House Pelosi — who only hours before had fled from a mob that wanted to kill them — presided over a joint session in the still-damaged House chamber and announced that Joe Biden had been elected president of the United States.

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https://www.salon.com/2021/02/13/donald-trumps-last-stand-how-his-desperate-attempt-to-overturn-the-election-failed/

[PirateRo]

1. I waited for a single republican to stand up, too. It never happened.

That is my memory of this party. Not one of defending the country, certainly not law and order (what a laugh!), but one of complicit co-conspirators.

Complicit. Co-conspirators. Terrorists. Monsters.

That’s what i saw.

[secondwind]

2. Not sure POTUS was watching the mob attacking the Capitol.

That may have come later.

[PirateRo]

3. You may be right, I'll correct below

Correction.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content 916360242

They still suck.

Thanks for the heads up.

[SkeezerRedux]

4. Know this...

The only thing any Republican can be truly counted on to stand up for is tax breaks for people who don't need one and whose lives aren't changed one iota by one.

Clueless as they may seem, even they know which side of their bread the butter's on.