Do republicans even really like him anymore, or are they just supporting him out of a desire to be contrarian and an inability to admit they were wrong?
The ones I know have never stopped jerking off over everything he does.
sadism is a virtue to these people. All the podcasts, network tv, youtube, whatever trumpers watch main message is that they need to come down hard on their enemies in the country and out so they learn their place beneath the superior conservative. No surprise trumps a rapist and that he and all the trumpers defended Gaetz, the ideology tracks 1:1 to the people who bring their daughters to charlie kirks "women shouldn't study and need to submit to conservatives" events.
Tucker Carlson got on stage to mass cheering and said he is daddy and no one can say no to him before the election and "call him daddy" became the rallying cry for the people who have been raging since "me too". The entire ideology is "morality is wrong." Empathy leads you to not dragging the local gay guy through a gravel field behind your truck, so its wrong. Or it means that businessmen wont have their god given right of grabbing em by the pussy cause of woke feminists. Or the new american bs where they say dei is discrimination so we need to get rid of the civil rights act and make segregation legal because Charlie Kirk said so.
When people say TDS, its because they do believe anyone who cares about anything but order and power is deranged. When countrymen don't want to rape and pillage in foreign nations, they ACTUALLY think it is deranged, theyre not lying. When they say non citizens should have no rights under the constitution at all, they all ACTUALLY think it is deranged to care in the slightest if we torture a non US citizen. When they say people who think he is a rapist have TDS, they ACTUALLY think its deranged to not blame the women and call them evil whores. Why do you think they all love so many foreign dictators and lie about thinking 2020 was stolen? They ACTUALLY think it is deranged to want a democracy.