In the days after the attack on the Capitol, hopes began rising among some Republicans that their party would make a clean break fromfrom Donald J. Trump

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In the days after the attack on the Capitol, hopes began rising among some Republicans that their party would make a clean break fromfrom Donald J. Trump once he was no longer president.

The speculation wasn’t all the fault of Twitter punditry: Even Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader at the time, seemed to stoke the idea, carefully nudging his party toward an impeachment trial.

Well, Mr. Trump has now left Washington. And, yet, Republicans remain scared of his shadow.

As the former president putts around Mar-a-Lago, the vast majority of his party has stayed faithful to his lingering political legacy.

The Senate hasn’t even begun Mr. Trump’s second impeachment trial and an acquittal already appears preordained. This week, 45 of 50 Republicans in the Senate backed an objection raised by Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, arguing that trying an ex-president would be unconstitutional — essentially trying to invalidate the entire process.

The party’s rush to judgment is even more surprising given that Senate Republicans are all witnesses, as well as jurors, in this trial. Most were in the chamber during the attack, eventually fleeing to shelter within the Capitol complex. A few could even be considered co-defendants for stoking the baseless claims about election fraud that incited the riot.

Of course, new information about the attacks could emerge, prompting Senate Republicans to change their mind about the former president’s culpability. But while the country still reels from the bitter division, baseless claims and armed militias that marked the last election, politicians have already begun casting their eyes to the next one.
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In the House, the 10 Republicans who supported impeachment face primary challenges, censures and other rebukes from their party. Others who offered mild criticism of Mr. Trump’s role in the attack are now trying to hustle their way back into his good graces. Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader and a staunch Trump ally, notably added a stop at Mar-a-Lago to his schedule during a fund-raising swing through Palm Beach, Fla. — an effort to try to repair his relationship with the former president.

A third group is expected to opt out of the dance all together. Some senior Republicans worry that Senator Rob Portman’s surprise announcement that he would not seek a third term in Ohio could be a harbinger, as more mainstream members grow weary of navigating the G.O.P.’s rightward shift. As Mr. Portman put it: “This is a tough time to be in public service.”

There was always reason to be skeptical of the idea that the right would sever its ties to the divisiveness and conspiracy mongering that defined Mr. Trump’s tenure. Mr. Trump conquered not only the presidency but also Republicanism, shifting the ideology of the party and taking over large swaths of the national, state and local infrastructure. Trumpism, after all, is largely an extension of his unique blend of populist impulses, resentment politics and cultural division. Even if a number of Republicans in Congress turned their backs on the former president, their party would remain behind him.

So far, that’s what seems to be happening: Recent polling by Monmouth University found the party standing firmly behind the former president, with 72 percent of Republicans still attributing President Biden’s victory to voter fraud.
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There’s little sign of any effort from Republican elected officials to try to unwind the damage done by that kind of conspiratorial thinking. In Washington, Republicans seem more focused on attacking those who break with Mr. Trump, than members who continue to push violent conspiracy theories that flourished under his leadership.

“Cut the crap,” Mr. McCarthy warned his members in a phone call this week, as some in his caucus were trying to oust Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, who voted to impeach Mr. Trump, from her leadership position.

Notably, there’s been no similar effort to eject Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who was vocal about her support for the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, after news broke that she repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians and mocked the killing of students in school shootings.

A short-term decision to accommodate Mr. Trump and his baseless charges may not define the party’s fortunes in the long run.
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There’s plenty that will happen over the next two years and it’s impossible to predict how much votes on impeachment today will matter tomorrow. But clearly, most Republicans are eager to send some early signals to their base and one newly retired Floridian.
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