I waited a few days before writing about the GOP reaction to the Mueller Report because, well, I have apparently learned nothing. Naively, I had hoped that Mitt Romney’s statement about dishonesty in the White House would jar, or at least jostle, some other consciences among his fellow Republicans.

In fact, all it did was to highlight (once again) how badly late-stage Trumpism has shrunken those consciences. What we got instead was the usual combination of foot-shuffling, denial, and silence.

On Monday, the Washington Post’s Phillip Rucker suggested that “Romney is saying exactly what his Republican colleagues in the Senate believe but are afraid to say.” But five days after the report’s release, Romney is still the only GOP senator to break with the ranks ofGOP pusillanimity.