Decent piece by Peter Wehner about how the GOP went from being a Party of Ideas (most of them were evil or bullshit or both, but I guess they were ideas) to being a party cynically interested in power for power's sake. Paul Campos has a nice take on it, too.
This, ultimately, is Trump's legacy on American politics. He has stripped whatever moral mooring technically existed in that party, piled them on the Capitol steps and lit them on fire.
I do not believe that Trumpism represents a majority position in America, but the nature of our party system means that we could soon be handing control of the House and important state level positions to people who have zero scruples about ending real democracy in this country.
Starkly amoral to the point of being actively immoral, and that is at best.
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