Themselves. They are afraid of his base.

They don’t want to lose the trumpeters and Q-anon folks.....but I feel comfortable that history will judge them accordingly

Most common sense Republicans are caught in the middle right now between not necessarily wanting to vote Democrat or Indipendent and being utterly horridied by what they're seeing out of their own party's leadership.

These folks are going to have to decide whether it's more important to stick with their core economic and political principles as well as their christian values as taught by Jesus Christ or to abandon everything they stand for in favor of cow towing to a few individuals who have built a sick, twisted cult and slapped the name "christian family values" on the advertising materials. And they have exactly four months to make their choice. November of 2018 is looming.

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