This striking map from Apple News tells the story of the magnitude of the shift since 2024.
The late Lindsey Graham, on Twitter back in May 2016 (punctuation sic):
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.
The wheels of history grind slowly, but they do grind. By the time of his death, Graham was amongst the lickspittlest of Trump’s GOP toadies. Graham’s idiot sister ran for his vacant Senate seat in South Carolina and lost.
Former representative Liz Cheney, at the January 6 hearings in 2021:
I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the
indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but
your dishonor will remain.
Winston Churchill, perhaps apocryphally:
Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all
other possibilities have been exhausted.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people
all of the time.