Business Insider: “What we’re seeing in the last few weeks is different from what we saw for the last four years. Yes, it’s remarkable and depressing that large numbers of Republican members of Congress intend to vote to reject the result of the election we just had. When Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer tried this nonsense 16 years ago, she brought along no other Senators and just a few dozen House members, and her party’s nominee didn’t play along, reflecting a sense of democratic responsibility that is obviously absent in Trump and much of today’s GOP.”

“But it’s also remarkable that so much of the party that he cowed into compliance for the last four years now intends to defy him – and isn’t just intending to vote against him but is speaking publicly about why their colleagues are wrong to give Trump what he wants. Liz Cheney, Chip Roy, and Tom Cotton, who have all vociferously rejected the plan to try to steal the election, are not exactly RINO squishes. And members are making these objections loudly to each other, as repeated leaks of tense conference calls among Republican elected officials revealed. We’ve come a long way from impeachment, when the party stood almost entirely united. Then, Romney was the only Republican in either chamber of Congress willing to say the president’s actions merited removal from office. Trump had taken over the Republican party, but now we’re back to a condition kind of like May 2016, where Trump divides his party bitterly down the middle between officials who are on board his train and those who oppose his demands and feel emboldened to say so in public.”