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Their revolting lack of ethics, their partisan partiality, and your spineless failure to reign them in suggest that under your watch, the rule of law has become illusory.

But they and other invertebrates are the spineless backbones of ecosystems, playing critical roles as pollinators, predators, prey and decomposers.

“As Republican leaders, we have a clear message for mealy-mouthed, spineless leaders: Congress will not tolerate your dereliction of duty to your Jewish students,” said the committee chair, North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx.

One after another, American institutions have spinelessly bowed to Trump’s power.

And somewhere in that ecosystem are air puppets like McDaniel — flailing spinelessly about, hoping to monetize the insight they gained from participating in a failed coup.