Stuart Stevens (Lincoln Project) has this mea culpa. . .

[DinahMoeHum]

. . .he was once upon a time an old GOP campaign hand, but he left the GOP the same time as Rick Wilson (around 2016) because he could not stomach TFG, or fellow Republicans who enabled TFG. . .

Link to tweet

I worked for Mitt Romney. He had a great debate with President Obama in Denver. He demonstrated why he was qualified to be president and offered an alternative to incumbent.

But the debate did not disqualify President Obama, any more than John Kerry’s first debate disqualified President Bush.

Last night, VP Harris disqualified Trump. He was exposed as a fool, a know nothing who can’t distinguish between fantasy and reality. He astonishingly said he would not have honored Article 5 of NATO, the linchpin to post-WW2 peace and prosperity for Western Alliance. He showed he lives in this make-believe world where Americans overwhelmingly opposed Roe v Wade.

He was humiliated, dominated, left sputtering “Get off my lawn!”

That dangerous fool is the legacy of the modern Republican Party. All those Rs I helped elect, when your careers are studied, this is what you will be remembered for.

Shame. You failed a test as Americans. The worst generation.

(boldface emphasis is mine - DMH)

[mucholderthandirt]

1. Absolutely the worst generation. This is the legacy of the party that birthed Lincoln, that freed slaves.

Now they want to go back to slavery, including women as mere breeding stock. They want to remove everything people have worked for all their lives, put them in poverty and make them live in fear of being jailed, or worse. This is fascism, and worse. It's feudalism at it's basest, most deplorable level.

There have been decent Republicans. Somewhat decent. I think Eisenhower might have been the last, but he was probably worse than history says. That they let their party come to this, using fake religious beliefs so they could gain money and power, should be an eternal shame. The Republican party should be broken up, like monopolies, so they never have such power again.

And we must be ever-vigilant that the Democrats never lose sight again of what we stand for, and who we stand with. No more "vote blue, no matter who". Always the best, always the brightest, and always the most worthy.