And what about moderate Republicans?
 

A nice summary by Brett Stephens in the New York Times...

Lock Him Up

But what about more mainstream conservatives who know the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, that Jan. 6 was a disgrace for the ages...

Stephens left a few things out though...

My wife has been seeing an alcoholic family (pretty much all of them) for some time now. The father is a judge in one of Chicago's collar counties...they are wealthy and they are Trump voters. For one stated reason only, their income tax bill. They will always vote Republican regardless of the criminal behavior or the stupid behavior (read George W. Bush)...for no other reason than their mistaken notion that they will be better off financially with a Republican President. So there are the wealthy who are more than willing to look the other way.

And the other multitude of single issue voters. The racists, the anti-Semites, the homophobes, the transphobes, the gunners, and those who believe that the medical care that American women receive is any of their fucking business.

So there are your Repubican voters, and in my humble opinion, they're worse than the idiotic MAGA, more despicable assholes than hard core Trumpers. They're no better than all the good little nazis throwing up the one armed salute all up and down the streets of Germany in the 1930's because they figured there was something in it for them, and who gives a shit about a few millions Jews.

The most hopeful thing I've read is that independent American voters, by recent polls, support the Trump indictment. The numbers prior to the releast of the indictment was 48%, now has risen to 61% according to PEW and GALLUP.

You will see even higher numbers disfavoring the Trumpism if there is violence from his followers. But still there are enough that they can do a lot of damage, even take over if not fought with courage and determination.

Hopefully more and more of those what's in it for me folks will wake up. In the meantime the Independents and Democrats must help steer the country in the right direction.

The problem for me is that if we take into account all of the single issues and the tax breaks, and the bigotry, etc., that we still end up with 46% of the vote going to the Republican, pretty much any Republican. And that makes the possibilities of the Electoral College vote going the wrong way too close for comfort. The Democrat could win the popular vote by 10 million and the fucked up Electoral College vote could still go the wrong way.

Can't let that happen if a big fascist is up for the Repubs.

That is what the Founding Fathers organized. They were wary of the "tyranny of the majority". Furthermore, the formatting is cued to a somewhat implicit autonomy of states. There is an underlying thrust to correct, balance, and pull back.

The good work of the founders, and it was pretty good in many respects, is not holy and sacred. And it's not like we follow it anyway. The founders envisioned an independent electoral college that would deliberate and say NO to the majority if they voted for a demagogue like Trump. That was a big part of it's purpose. Since we don't have that, we've left the Constitution behind already. So I certainly don't favor following our bastardized Constitution if it means the racist fascist gets back in.

I believe there are processes to make legal changes.

Except we have tyranny of the minority, the swing states. Lets be real here, the presidential election is decided by just a handful of states. Red states have a big city problem, their urban dwellers predominantly vote for Democrats. So they come up with voter suppression schemes to limit Dem votes.

Changes all fall on a continuum, a sliding scale from strictly legal at one end, to based on political power regardless of legality in the middle, to based on pure brute force at the other end. It's pretty rare for meaningful change to happen way on the 'strictly legal' end.

Yikes more "tyranny of the majority" crap. The founders were slave owning, slave trading, slave raping white supremacist elitists. There is an underlying thrust to have a whole bunch of American citizen's votes not count. And those little states, the smallest of them...every one is over represented in the legislative branch and in presidential elections

What the elitist landowning slave trading founding fathers were most wary of was that the electorate, which they considered to be an ignorant mob, might elect a president who might do something that would disempower the elitist landowning slave traders.

You believe wrong. What that would require is a justice system that would not let the vote whoring politicians put the fix in via wonderful things like gerrymandering , which the Constitution does not protect us from.

We have a legal system, not a justice system. Any justice doled out by this legal system is incidental.