The trolley problem is a famous scenario in ethics. The trolley is headed for 5 people who are tied to the track. On the other track there is only one person tied to the track. Do you pull the switch so the trolley takes the other track and only kills one person? Common sense, and probably your immediate reaction, is yes do you.

But there’s a line of thinking that if you pull the switch you’re responsible for killing that person. If you do nothing, you didn’t actually kill anybody.

For quite a while we naively hoped that the GOP would show some spine and stand up to Trump and MAGA. To pull the lever and do something. However that hope has faded into distant memory. It seems most GOP senators are thinking “but if I do nothing I haven’t actively violated my oath to uphold the constitution and I won’t get primaried.” So they enjoy the power and the money and duck out of town halls at home with their constituents. Or else insist those people making noise at the town halls must be getting paid by George Soros.

And here we are, in our real life version of the trolley problem and with “complete inaction” option looking like what the politicians actually choose. So much for ethics.