This week, former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan brought out over a dozen high-profile Republicans who both spoke in support of the ex-president and bashed the proceedings as illegitimate. One columnist is arguing that there’s a dangerous undertone to those Republicans’ posturing that should be discussed in-depth. In a Friday article for the New Republic, staff writer Greg Sargent observed that the slew of Republican elected officials who came to New York all subtly took the disturbing position “to make it unimpeachably clear that their primary fealty is to Donald Trump o…