For the past six weeks, Trump has staged the ultimate loyalty test for the party faithful as he forced Republican officials to opt between siding with him and the nation’s democratic process. Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-Ga.), who signed a brief supporting Texas’s Supreme Court lawsuit against his own state, said voters are demanding action. “The Republican Party has adopted an attitude that if democracy helps them be in power, then, fine, they’re for democracy. “They’re making the calculation that the Supreme Court is not going to hear this,” she said Friday before the ruling. A few of the Republican officials who have dared to cross Trump and declare the election was free and fair have faced death threats and ostracization within their own party.

Source: Washington Post December 12, 2020 20:09 UTC