Where are GOP deserters?

[SmartVoter22]

POTUS 45 was an abject disaster and failure for most Republicans.
It's similar to what Nixon caused the party with Watergate.

In 1973, there was a large number of Republicans who left the GOP. They had principles and stood by them.
There doesn't seem to be any this time the party failed it's membership.

Anyone have any idea as to why we are seeing elected Republicans not deserting the party?

Loyalty to Trump can't be the only reason.

[Johnny2X2X]

1. The ones still in are all in

Trump controls a giant voting block they need to win their own elections.

What happens now though could change that. Going to be crazy for a long time.

[PirateRo]

2. Republicans have been suspiciously silent since the last election

It is criminal. Criminal! They are complicit with this monster!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Waiting for Putin to save them?

[uponit7771]

4. K&R,

[Clearly fogged in]

5. Simple answer - There are none

They have become GOP deniers. They are still who they were yesterday but with one more grudge. Defanged, but they will still bite.

[Klaralven]

6. I don't recall any Republicans deserting Nixon in the fall of '72.

Nixon cruised to victory over McGovern 520 to 17. McGovern only carried Massachusetts and DC.

[Bucky]

7. If politicians came to their views logically, changes in the world would change their alignments

Winston Churchill pointed out that he himself "ratted twice" in his life, going from Tory to Liberal to Tory again.

But to be a conservative Republican in this day and age requires more than principles. It requires an act of faith-beyond-facts. You'd have to accept that tax cuts produce budget surpluses, that 98% of climate scientists are wrong, that Russian interference in US elections isn't to support their puppet in the White House, and that you yourself are standing on Christian principles when you support a filandering cheating racist traitor as your leader.

Someone who takes that leap of faith isn't going to just "come to their senses" any time soon.

[LastDemocratInSC]

9. Very well stated.

[bigtree]

8. it's a cult

...suspended disbelief and alternative truths.