"The Republican base actively embraces Trump’s grievances; it emulates his pettiness; it supports his childlike inability to accept responsibility. These voters are not sighing in resignation and voting for the lesser of two or three or four evils. They are getting what they want—because they, too, are set on revenge."
"These voters are not settling a political score. Rather, they want to get even with other Americans, their own neighbors, for a simmering (and likely unexpected) humiliation that many of them seem to have felt ever since swearing loyalty to Trump.
A lot of people, especially in the media, have a hard time accepting this simple truth."
"Millions of Americans, stung by the electoral rebukes of their fellow citizens, have become so resentful and detached from reality that they have plunged into a moral void, a vortex that disintegrates questions of politics or policies and replaces them with heroic fantasies of redeeming a supposedly fallen nation."
The electoral rebuke that stung them bitterly was Obama's election.
All in a day's time, Kevin McCarthy (R) elbowed Tim Burchett (R) in the back; Markwayne Mullin (R) challenged Teamster Sean O'Brien to a fight; and James Comer (R) called Jared Moskowitz (D) a smurf. All this in Congress….
Jay Kuo wonders if it's time to shut the GOP down, since it's clearly melting down in real time, and this endangers the whole nation.