With the ranks of the defeated now completed — John Kasich quit the race on Wednesday — Trump’s victims are now lining up to demonstrate their rationalized devotion to their abuser. It is a diminishing spectacle. Bobby Jindal, a onetime Republican star who flailed wildly at Trump during his short-lived quiver of a campaign, said on Wednesday that he would most likely be voting for Trump in November. “I’m not happy about it,” he felt the need to add.

Neither, apparently, are some officials at the Republican National Committee. Committee staff members were told that if they can’t support Trump, “they should leave by the end of the week,” according to The New York Times. The words “kicking and screaming” come to mind: unity, or else.

On Monday, Jon Huntsman, a former Republican governor of Utah and proponent of the gentleman’s centrism embodied by his nonprofit group, “No Labels,” seemed to endorse Trump, the Master Labeler himself — the man who labeled “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz, “Little Marco” Rubio and “Low Energy” Jeb Bush, among others. Yes labels.

You can certainly see how many Republicans find themselves in a tough spot. They think that Hillary Clinton is awful and that it might be politically problematic for them as Republicans to say they’d vote for her, even if they believe Trump would be worse. It’s considered unseemly for politicians to say they plan to stay home in November rather than vote, even if that’s what they plan to do. No third-party option has come forward. But there’s also something hilarious about Marco Rubio calling Trump the “most vulgar person to ever aspire to the presidency” during his campaign and then last week pivoting to say that Trump’s performance has “improved significantly.” He added that he’s more certain than ever that he will support the Republican nominee “now that it’s apparent that Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic nominee,” as if that prospect came out of nowhere (or that he might be Feeling the Bern otherwise).

Ted Cruz, meanwhile, called Trump a “pathological liar” and “a narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen” as recently as Tuesday. (This was after his father said electing “the alternative” to his son would signal “the destruction of America,” which led Trump to insinuate that Raphael Cruz had a role in the John F. Kennedy assassination. 2016.). And yet Cruz has said repeatedly that he would support Trump if he were the Republican nominee — though he did show signs of perhaps reconsidering after Trump started mocking Cruz’s wife. Cruz said nothing about supporting Trump in his departure speech on Tuesday night, while Trump played gracious and praised Lyin’ Ted as “tough,” “smart” and “one hell of a competitor.”