There’s a difference between blackmailed (or coerced) into collaboration and doing it wholeheartedly. The GOP-e does the latter. And yes, it’s material, because there is no instance of the former.
Purporting to represent “the good” and deliberately doing the evil is exactly the nature of the god of this world. It might be debatable whether being two-faced takes guts or not.
I can’t pretend to know the minds/hearts of those in question.
Nor have I that closely followed the entire abortion issue, and so can’t speak with conviction re your assertion of ‘wholeheartedly’.
Similarly, knowing very little for certain that goes on in the cesspool that is DC, I’ve nothing on which to base an opinion that coercion has never been involved.
As to the latter, it should go without saying that an otherwise honorable individual with a gun to their head or to that of a family member is a victim, not a collaborator.
To the former, and absent coercion, it still seems to me that either one collaborates or one doesn’t.
But I’m just an old carpenter who’s already been wrong a couple times this year, so maybe this is the third, who knows ;-)