The more I try to dig into the psychology of congressional Republicans, the more I'm just like, eff humanity, man.
There are mass amounts of evidence to convict Trump. The fact is: Trump incited the violence and insurrection on the capital on 1/6/2021. It was planned and premeditated. There is no doubt. The facts are there.
But, the reality is that, you can point a gun to their heads and say, "Who lives, you or Trump?", and congressional Republicans will say, "Trump! Oh, please, take my life but save Trump's!" Their line of thinking is the same as the insurgents'. If they could have participated on 1/6/2021 against the U.S. government without losing their seats, you betcha these congressional Republicans would have.
The problem with this country is that you have people with such a mental handicap, they simply are incapable of grasping and understanding the rippling and crippling effects of their actions. Their survival instincts are so shortsighted. So motivated by greed and power, so consumed by the thought of losing in the re-elections, so afraid to lose their long standing power as a race, so afraid immigrants will take their jobs, so afraid other schools of thoughts will take away their Christian beliefs, so extreme in their beliefs that they want to force other people to accept their beliefs as law (they can't fathom that other people have a right to their own beliefs and to do what makes them happy too)... that even in the face of facts (the incitement of violence on the U.S. capital by the commander in chief; the precedence this will have; losing our standing and legitimacy as a democratic world leader), it does not faze these congressional Republicans (and Trump followers) in the least, at all.
It is no longer about one party's policies over another's. It is now a matter of mental health illness vs clarity of thought and foresight to see the short-term and long-term all-encompassing consequences of one's actions.