WASHINGTON — After a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters violently attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, a reckoning seemed inevitable for a Republican Party that had embraced him and spread his lies about election fraud.
Republicans like Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming all but called him a traitor. Senator Mitch McConnell denounced him in scathing terms, and McConnell’s allies warned that Trump would only turn voters off and weigh the party down, pointing to the embarrassing Senate losses in Georgia.
Seven weeks and one impeachment later, however, that reckoning has been limited, where it is apparent at all.
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