Ronald Reagan often said good things about senators and congressmen who disagreed with him and rarely voted with him. trump tweets idiotic vitriol against senators and congressmen who vote with him, pretty much in lock step. All of theses cowardly members of congress who are "retiring" and are speaking out against trump have voting records that show almost universal agreement with trump on various pieces of legislation. That fact alone should worry anyone who claims to be a conservative. He doesn't want political support. He wants slavish support. He wants "his people" to bow down when he speaks.
Mark Sanford is the latest republican to speak out against the negative effect trump is having on the republican party.
Our politics are broken, but there is hope on the democratic side of the aisle. While that party has failed in numerous areas there are at least indications it can be repaired and function to elect people who serve as the constitution intended the congress to act, as one of three equal and separate branches of government. But the republican party is a lost cause. It has been shattered into too many pieces to be put back together into a functioning organization. It is the party of trump, and that means only one thing, subservience to trump. I find it shocking that so many people in this country have allowed this to happen. What will it take for republican voters to see the error of their ways? Another unnecessary war but one where 50 or 60,000 members of the military die? Political assassinations like in the 1960s? Or a civil war where hundreds of thousand of Americans die? We're headed down that path.