She closes her “Wait, What?” newsletter (found at The Atlantic) with:
During the four years of Trump’s administration, the Republican base was trained to accept the unacceptable—to support their guy, because the other guy was somehow worse. Every scandal made the MAGA core of the party more intractable when, in normal life, it would have done the opposite. We won’t ultimately know until the midterms are over, and all the votes are counted, whether the latest string of GOP scandals have had any effect on the candidates in question. But it’s pretty easy to guess where all this is going. Of course, I hope I’m wrong.