… So long as the president remains overwhelmingly popular among Republican voters, there’s almost no chance that Republican officeholders would take serious steps to curb Trump as they have curbed King. However, the example of President George W. Bush’s second term showed that congressional Republicans can desert their leader quite suddenly if he falls below a critical level of popular support.
Speculations about a GOP rebellion against Trump may always remain speculative. Nonetheless, there are indications that some Republicans are considering policies that would demonstrate actual interest and concern for nonwhites, partly as a way of pushing back against the perception that Trump has remade the GOP as a white nationalist party. CONT.
Geoffrey Kabaservice (Niskanen Center), Washington Post