Dear Republicans: Is This the Idol to Whom You Have Sold Your Souls?

In the past few weeks, Donald Trump has gone from saying that no, he didn't collude with a foreign dictatorship to interfere with the US election, to doing it on live TV, asking the government of China to investigate Joe Biden and his son, for no clear reason.

Exactly two prominent Republicans denounced this: Ben Sasse and Mitt Romney. Marco Rubio took the brave course of pretending it didn't happen, dismissing it as "not a real request." Other Republicans, and much of the conservative rank and file, made a seamless move from declaring that Trump never did it to affirming that he did do it and it was good.

All of this has me wondering: Is this the idol to whom conservatives have decided to sell their souls?

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