re: #79 retired cynic

David Atkins in Washington Monthly:

Looking beyond 2020, one might think that a sweeping Democratic electoral victory would focus conservative minds and unite them against a common enemy as is typically the case in American politics. But it’s just as likely that the anti-Trump elements in the GOP who have been quietly waiting in the wings will attempt to pounce after his defeat, only to find that the party’s actual base and most of its new bench of electeds are unflinching Trumpists who will seek to double down on his rhetoric and bigoted political instincts.

What I still cannot get my mind around is how the GOP — the ultimate anti-Communist party — has morphed into the pro-Russian pro-KGB loving party. It’s like seeing the Invasion of the Body Snatchers play out in real time and the entire GOP is blindly following Trump taking this nation over the cliff.