Their fanatical fidelity to falsehoods kicked off by ex-President Donald Trump's camp leaves no space for gaffes in the Republican leadership, arousing anxiety about the effects of Trump's lies on the party's credibility and political prospects in the future. Trump, now, goes on with telling lies and false tales of election would not end, and party leaders are split into two with the need to keep the Trump base and uphold democracy of the nation.
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Trump's lie-telling fact has shaped to a new level in the recent past, where he has become more focused on overthrowing the vote count of the 2020 presidential election and nullifying Joe Biden's victory. A number of court decisions and recounts confirm that the electoral process is transparent and that it was conducted with an acceptable degree of adherence to rules, yet Trump spreads lies and misinformation, sows doubt and discord among his supporters, and worsens the situation in terms of the trust in the electoral process.
Republican leaders nose dive into political purgatory every time they are blindly rebuttal of trump lies. For many of the GOP officials, the path becomes very narrow and they become the target due to the consequence of either taking a stand against Trump and risking his wrath or giving in to his demands without any thinking through.
For some Republican leaders, the cognitive dissonance of backing Trump's lies while in the secret of the truth, is becoming more and more that one cannot bear with that. The effort of bending the truth in order to consider it to be appropriate to Trump's narrative is exhausting, it is piming a gap between the party's establishment and the grassroots supporters, and it is promoting internal conflict within the party.
The rising trend of the Republican parties to discredit Trump has put a lot of pressure on the party leaders to debunk Trump's lies openly. Some of the leaders are hesitating to come open with the former president as they are afraid of his avid base's revenge. Consequently, the GOP is now trapped in the ring of a vicious cycle of lies and denial, by which Trump's lies impel the Republican Party to an extremism further and further down the spiral of polarization and confrontation.
As the 2022 midterm elections loom on the horizon, Republican leaders face a critical choice: one would still have to convince people to step off the rung set out by him, full with lies and division, or stand up for truth, democracy and the order. of things. It does not seem that any of these outcomes can be worse, as the prospect of the Republican Party, or American democracy at large are at stake.