Republicans have become the embodiment of pure evil.

[milestogo]

Every last one of them.

[Sneederbunk]

1. I am old enough to remember when there were Republicans you could respect.

[Skittles]

2. you must be pretty old

[Sneederbunk]

3. Don't rub it in punk.

[Skittles]

14. I just may be older than you, whippersnapper

[pangaia]

18. I'll see you and raise you 3.

[Skittles]

19. you win, geezer

[pangaia]

20. 😢😢😨😢

[sprinkleeninow]

27. Hay, I remember when they had a minute measure of decency,

and thus resemble that remark of yours!
Hardy har har. 😆

[rickyhall]

17. Eisenhower?

All I could think of. Oh yeah, Teddy Roosevelt. Even Lincoln quit the party his second term.

[DDySiegs]

25. Eisenhower authorized the overthrow of

Iran’s democratically elected Mossadegh (sp?) government circa 1953 ( just to make British Petroleum happy), and the Iranians and everyone else have suffered from that stupidly evil move ever since. So I don’t want leave Eisenhower out of the mainspring of Republican evil.

[niyad]

31. the interference in vietnam's elections ring a bell? helping the french at dien bien phu?

the second indochina war, with american troops? so, no, not ike.

[FSogol]

32. Richard Lugar (retired in 2013) or John Warner (retired in 2009)

They were the last.

[oberliner]

4. Steve Schmidt and Richard Painter, too?

Rick Wilson?

[milestogo]

5. I am referring to elected officials.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I can NOT understand why anyone would vote for

pure, unadulterated evil. Really, who? They are psychologically twisted and perverse. This sort of explains it to a degree.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/15/16144070/psychology-alt-right

[byronius]

7. I agree in the case of GOP leadership. Most of the rank and file are just trapped in kulture.

The sad truth is we carry them. Without us they start to die off, because their policies are truly suicidal. Their ideas only seem valid to them because they are injected by culture; in practice, they evade disaster only because of the force which alters and denies most of their worst impulses -- us.

If we were not a nation but an insect or bacteriological colony, they would be lost to evolution. But the idea of a nation or a human species is an advanced cooperative concept that creates evolutionary backwaters in which outmoded beliefs can survive and sometimes thrive for a time. If they were a population unto themselves, they would quickly collapse.

Misogynistic. Racist. Religiously autocratic. Hoarding honored, work denigrated. Science only sometimes useful -- when your kid's sick, or when it makes something you need or like. Obsessed with weaponry for defense against an imaginary threat. Addicted to damaging drugs and even more damaging worldviews. An outright refusal to adapt to change, or the future in general.

Sounds like most populations in third world countries, does it not?

GOP leadership, however. Worst. Human. Beings. Ever.

They disgrace the human race and threaten the future of the species wth their ever-worsening stream of Bad Ideas. Out they go, or out we all go.

[SCantiGOP]

8. Evil, and stupid

The tax plan is simply to borrow money and give it to rich people. Then we all have to pay it back.

[Initech]

9. And they keep saying that everything that's happened is God's work.

If this is god's work, I'd hate to see what Satan has in store!

[SeaDoo77]

10. Been Sayin' That For Years

Pure
Undeniable
Evil.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

11. K&R nt

[Matthew28]

12. Their goal

Is to send us back the 18th century
-Do away with the safetynet
-Do away with consumer protections
-Do away with workers rights and unions
-Give it all to the rich

Pretty much turn into a third world country.

[milestogo]

15. But they will do well.

[Generic Brad]

13. For 17 years now....

I realized that when they pulled their horrid stunt on Terry Schiavo. Then again when they stole the election from Al Gore. Then it was reenforced for me further when they lied us into Iraq. And again when they stole the next presidency from John Kerry. And then when they tanked the economy and hurt all of us. And then when they opposed President Obama blindly for 8 years.

This is not something new. It is just more flagrant than it used to be.

[kimbutgar]

16. They are now evil to the core

They just don't care that they are hurting regular working people.

[ffr]

21. Been thinking the same thing

They're just cashing in on whatever they can take from the rest of us.

[NRaleighLiberal]

22. Yup

[ashling]

23. When did you notice?

[DDySiegs]

24. I have been saying this for years.

But I will certainly grant that the Republicans have taken that EVIL to unimaginable depths.

[nini]

26. They always have been

They just dont try and hide it anymore.

[Jules Hey]

28. Forget the Elephant: this is their NEW Symbol

Well, at least he's smiling, unlike most Republicans!

[Freelancer]

29. I used to go on about how stupid the civil war was...

I shook my head at how people could go to war with their own cousins and brothers. I'm starting to "get it" now. Since DT won, my high and mighty ideas about my people have been seriously eroded. That's a hard thing to get back.

[rock]

30. The republic party began a slide some 3 or 4 decades ago

They found that the voting populace did NOT favor them and it was hard for them to get elected. So they had to resort to (what I like to call) extracurricular methods: lying, hyperbole, hypocrisy, cheating, gerrymandering, losing ballot boxes, license checks on election day, losing registrations, etc. I could go on all day, but you get the grift, I mean drift.