Amash is at it again. And this thread's a long one.

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8. Yes, they tend naturally conforming, cohesive and

authoritarian with top-down hierarchy, but the Republican Party has been internally divided for some while. Not its grand old self by any means.

Wish we knew how all this would end. It really seemed they were committing party suicide two years ago by blatantly betraying their own voters and nation. Possibly what we were really seeing was an inflection point of commitment to securing power and wealth by siding entirely with the ultrawealthy RW and taking over government and the electoral system itself, a direction they'd been heading anyway. They may not be quite at an all hang together or hang separately point now, but seem pretty close.