You're wasting your time, David.  The Republican [sic] party knows it's already too late to get out.  They helped Trump hijack the plane.  Too late for them to bail.  

Stalin perfected the technique: make your ambitious minions share your crimes.  Then they have to keep your secrets.  And when you're tired of them, you just hang them out, one by one, and let them twist in the wind.  Nobody will help them.  The others just watch, sweating blood.  Trump understands this.  He knows McConnell has a brain and isn't somebody to mess with.  That's why his wife got a cabinet post.  Ryan, though, is naive to the point of stupidity.  He runs to clean Trump's privy and Trump just despises him for it.  He's marked for early betrayal.  De Vos, Carson, Perry--more fools who'll go down when Herr Trump has no more use for them.  Tillerson's OK as long as he pretends he doesn't know what's going on and just speaks his lines.  Gattis is the puzzle.  He knows what's going down.  What's his game?