Stop showing contempt for the half of the country that disagrees with you.
“There s no evidence that people in the Republican party are going to perceive that whatever happened yesterday that Trump’s rhetoric and their allegiance to Trump of the last 4 years have somehow gone a bridge too far,” said Jim Henson, the director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.
“I think if that were the case, we would have seen different votes yesterday and we would see being different rhetoric responses today, and we aren t seeing that,” he said.
Republican politicians in Texas aren’t likely to pull back from the cultivation of a deep distrust in government elections, promoted by the president, after Wednesday’s eruption in violence in the Capitol, Henson said.