It’s hard to believe that we are, astoundingly, still inside the first 100 days of this administration. There has certainly been no shortage of jaw-dropping events. The sheer audacity of new policy pronouncements, executive orders, and governmental actions incites new waves of shock, anger, and fear for the future.

In today’s episode, we’re asking another pretty simple question: why do Republicans just keep going along with it all? Politics has always been an activity with a less-than-stellar track record in honesty and integrity. But the seemingly complete willingness of Republican figures to stand policy positions on their head, throw out previously held values, or even submit themselves to public ridicule has been noteworthy, to say the least. And this is not just party figureheads – across the party, there is now mostly uniform adherence to whatever direction the administration wants to pursue, no matter how bombastic, offensive, or even un-Republican it may be.

So, join us, on Angry & Verklemmt, as we move a little beyond Trump and Trumpism, and try to make sense of why and how he seems to have such a stranglehold on the Republican Party.