I am beginning to believe that no matter how large of a majority we give Senate Republicans, they will still be afraid of Ted and Hitllery and the rest.
No guts no glory.
Beginning to believe?
That was true as far back as 1994-1995 as this article correctly points out.
The liberal radical extremist leftists that is the Democratic Party's leadership fights like a tiger when it comes to a real cat fight like we have here.
The Republicans fight like a pussy.
I don't think they're afraid in the way you mean.
I think almost all Senators are from the same class-after they leave home, they go to elite schools, they imbibe elitist doctrine, and they are therefore secularists and moral relativists.
When they go back home, in order to become Senators, they have to fit in with the People.
In red states, this means they have to be verbally committed to the life/natural rights agenda.
In the glory days of the Republican minority, this presented no problem to them, because their was no chance that their advocacy of their constituents "simplified" beliefs could lead to a concrete result.
Now, however, nothing stands in the way of the national GOP agenda-except for the reluctant dragons of the Senate GOP "majority".
Many of them need to be replaced.