Republican senator Jeff Flake:
It was we conservatives who rightly and robustly asserted our constitutional prerogatives as a co-equal branch of government when a Democrat was in the White House but who, despite solemn vows to do the same in the event of a Trump presidency, have maintained an unnerving silence as instability has ensued.
If ultimately our principles were so malleable as to no longer be principles, then what was the point of political victories in the first place?