I guess I always knew Republicans would never get rid of Donald Trump

[Saboburns]

There really is no bottom. I watch in horror as people I've known for 50 years are revealed to me as Nazis. There is no other name for them.

And I know something else, Something even worse than that. Things will keep ketting worse. It will take much time, and blood, and lives before it gets better.

This country's hate has reached critical mass.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Those lousy bastards were more than willing to destroy what very little

protections we gained with ACA just to stick in Obama's eye. For that one thing alone they can all rot in hell/

[leftstreet]

2. I'm starting to wonder what Trump has on some of them

The more that prominent GOP supporters come out and denounce Trump, the silence of some is making me start to wonder...

[Saboburns]

4. If they havent spoken out by now they aint going to

Even the Republicans who have condemned havent mentioned Donald Trump by name. Just generic tweets condemning racism and bigotry.

Its a done deal.

Business as usual.

[volstork]

7. I don't think it's what trump has on them,

it's what PUTIN has on them. They are all complicit in this coup, and are terrified of being exposed.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. They won't do anything as long as Trump's racist "base"

holds a majority in their particular district or among the GOP voters in their state. While SCROTUS' current approval rating nationally is in the mid 30-percent range, in some GOP districts it's still in the 80s. Since they still value their jobs more their country, they won't say anything that might piss off the knucklegraggers in their districts.

[Saboburns]

5. Exactly

This country has manuevered itself into being controlled by the shitiest 30% of us.

[Aristus]

6. Of course not. He's their dream-President.

The open-mouthed horror and pearl-clutching among the GOP congressional leadership is just dinner theater. He's everything they've ever wanted in a President. If he was an ass-scratching, backwoods hillbilly hayseed with a blade of grass sticking out of his face, they'd throw over the Constitution and make him King.

Governing has ground to a halt. For anti-government right-wingers, that's Christmas in July.

Trump has all the sophistication of a Go-Gurt-addled baby ripping off his own diaper and smearing his shit on the walls. That's the kind of President the GOP has been dreaming of for decades: the anti-sophisticated, educated, coastal, citified elitist.

Right-wing violence has increased so dramatically in the US that it is painfully and horrendously becoming normalized.

Basic Training drop-outs and backwoods Rambo-wannabees are striding the streets with a Munich-1933 verve and confidence.

Social media communication has all the grace and inspiratory power of a dumpster fire.

America has become the free-world version of a Third World banana republic. We've lost the helm of global leadership.

Every day takes us a step closer to full-on, moronic Idiocracy squalor.

This is what the Republican Party has been fighting for, tooth and nail, since Goldwater lost in 1964.

There's no going back...

[Saboburns]

8. And I'm not sure our side can win

I just don't feel real confident that we will win in the end. I wish I felt different.

[Aristus]

9. On that score, at least, I feel confident.

I'm sure we can beat them. It's just going to take a monumental effort. We rid the country of the scourge of slavery, but it took the most devastating war in our history to do it. And the fecklessness of our post-Civil War leadership set the cause back decades as the former slavers and the dirt-poor white small-holding farmers worked together to bring back slavery in all but name. It took a century, but we finally broke their power.

They're still around, and still making noise. But now they look like the outliers, the misfits, the hayseeds unwilling or unable to join the modern world.

There was a time when anyone advocating against segregation and in favor of civil rights for everyone was laughed at as a kum-bah-yah dreamer. Now, we're the normal ones.

There is hope...