They should try living with integrity. Maybe in their next lives?

And he's approving/moving along the theocracy.

Its like the Mob is in control or something..

something bad happened to your next election, eh?"

Blackmail

Payoffs

Threats

He has threatened them personally with a primary and they like their fancy jobs. It's also possible that magas have threatened their lives and families. There could also be nasty kompromat on some of them. Others are true believers.

What's so stupid is that if they all stood against him as a unit, they could push him back. But that would require courage and character. Ha.

has threatened them personally with a primary and they like their fancy jobs. It's also possible that magas have threatened their lives and families."

This exactly. It is bizarre to me that even after Musk saying out loud that he would pay to fund primaries and the political assassinations in Minnesota people still do not understand what is going on.

We have a political system beholden to billionaires and giant corporations on one hand, and afraid of loose cannon random reich-wing individuals on the other hand.

Corralling the House would be like herding cats, but I thought the Senate might use that tactic. A stand against Hegseth? Gabbard? Patel? Saying NO to Any of his toxic nominees would have shown the tiniest bit of fortitude.

Trump regime is like a jenga tower built out of plastic explosive blocks. Politicians never know what will set Trump off. And then there is no way of knowing which maga terrorist is out there with a bullet with the politician's name on it. Senators may be full of themselves, but unless they and their families are never closer than a half mile to the general public they can never feel fully secure.

Besides the political ramifications does any one NOT think for one minute that degenerate wouldn't go after their families & loved ones?
To the worst level? Physical injury? Maybe even have them killed?
I don't!

that voice wields leverage. Leverage results in prodigious butt smooching. Merit walks, fealty talks.

Thanks to gerrymandering and blind party loyalty, most of these Rs probably can't lose in the general and don't have to worry about moderating like they otherwise might.

And MAGA and the far right turn out for primaries. To be less than bat shit crazy is to lose the primary. To be bat shit crazy has almost no impact on the general.

He clearly doesn't promote or appoint or support or whatever based on merit. It's based on loyalty. And how does he trust the loyalty is not mere words?

Like a mob boss, he delegates based on how much he can control the person he's delegating to, which is most likely based on how much kompromat he has in them.

Think about it. If you've never broken a law, never cheated on your spouse or taxes, never done anything shady, always honest and upright... why would Donnie want you around?

I think they seek it out and make sure of it. I think he's got something on everyone around him. If he doesn't, you get primaried or fired and replaced.

No kompromat necessary