Follow the loser

Republicans seem to love Trump the loser more than Trump the winner.

“You guys know he lost, right?”

So asks Kevin Williamson in National Review, who expresses his befuddlement at the Republican Party swearing Jonestown-level loyalty to a man who led them to a catastrophic defeat - not catastrophic enough, in my opinion, but still pretty bad - in the last election. Wasn’t the whole point of backing Trump was because he supposedly won at everything he ever tried?

…It used to be that when Republicans talked about “learned helplessness,” they meant welfare dependents rather than the leaders of their own party. Because those choices have been dumb and destructive, that party is a smoking ruin right now, and you’d think that, if nothing else, cynically self-interested Republicans would try to do themselves a solid when it comes to the next election.

There’s just that one part I still can’t figure out.

Do you know what Liz Cheney did in her last election? She won — bigly. Her Democratic opponent didn’t break 30 percent. If Donald Trump had won 70 percent of the…