The cowards' comeuppance: It's too late for a radical reinvention of the Trump GOP

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NY Daily News opinion piece by Charlie Sykes:

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-the-cowards-comeuppance-20201018-aii26wmixfgbhm74nxuadk4nxi-story.html

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It’s October 2020. It’s too late. For better or worse, they are stuck with the die they cast long ago, to let themselves become Trumpian lickspittles. The bill for their Faustian bargain has come due.

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Few of them, however, matched the fawning servility of Lindsey Graham, who as a candidate for president called Trump a “race-baiting, xenophobic bigot” and many other accurate descriptors, then reinvented himself into a full-blown MAGA Man, complete with tights and cape. Now, he finds himself facing the possibility of a humiliating electoral defeat.

It’s now far too late for Graham to pivot again. One spine is all he had to sacrifice for his country.

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And after quoting some of Sasse's blunt criticism of Trump:

I’d say the torrent of truth is welcome, but this is all the equivalent of changing the recipe for a disgusting cake 10 seconds before it’s due to go in the oven.

The batter can’t be saved. It’s going in the oven one way or another. It smells awful. It’s going to taste terrible. Republicans are going to have to eat what they have made — and then prepare for the gastrointestinal reckoning.