Members of President Trump's Cabinet met on June 12 at the White House. First, unlike Senate and House Republicans during Watergate, there are few genuine leaders of principle whose sense of propriety is offended by Trump. So long as the characters who populate the right stick with Trump, elected Republicans, sadly, won’t lead. Third, given the first two factors, Republicans continue to rationalize support for Trump, or at least line-straddling. In sum, the sad answer is that these Republicans won’t act out of principle, won’t challenge the right-wing echo chamber and won’t give up the delusion that they can get parts of their agenda through.

Source: Washington Post June 13, 2017 13:02 UTC