The silence was deafening. Hillary Clinton had just launched a blistering assault on Donald Trump’s fitness for the presidency, and few prominent Republicans came to their presumptive nominee’s aid.

In her speech last week, ostensibly devoted to foreign affairs, Clinton landed a few glancing blows on what she described as Trump’s “dangerously incoherent” foreign policy. Republicans responded with criticisms of her record as secretary of state, ranging from Benghazi to her housing sensitive emails on a homebrew server in an age of cybersecurity threats.