« [M]any people who’ve served Trump, no matter how faithfully, have been ruined in various ways by the experience.
Nevertheless, as Trump runs for re-election, Republicans are climbing over one another to get as close to him as possible. »
— Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times.
One thing that will keep psychological researchers busy for decades is trying to explain the self-destructive groveling of Trump sycophants. Trump demands full loyalty and never returns it.
Wannabe Trump stooges understand this but delusionally think that things will be different for them.
Remember Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions?
11 times Trump has ripped Jeff Sessions
In 2017 Ezra Klein wrote...
[I]t’s become clear that to serve Trump is to risk permanently damaging your reputation — you will be asked to do things you shouldn’t do, and to say things you know you shouldn’t say, and even if you follow orders loyally, you might still end up on the wrong side of the president’s tweets.
The only rational explanation for those Republicans demeaning themselves by publicly grovelling to Trump is that they hope they get to be vice president and that he then dies in office. Such people should not be trusted at any level.