Interesting thread on Twitter

[Hortensis]

22. Yes! I've wondered often. Poor character, we know that.

It's why I've come to think character should always come first, above even ideology. If character's good, the ideology can't be too bad, and extremists, and all hard-core conservatives, are automatically weeded out.

Most Repubs elected over the last 30 years were assisted to office by big donors as part of corrupting processes, whether they admitted it or not. Most seemed to also really believe in cutting taxes and regulations, and nothing's more common than high-flown rhetoric you want to believe used to excuse what you want to do. Then life on a slippery slope? People in key positions set up, blackmailed into compliance, taking others with them? Promises of riches and power in a new authoritarian hierarchy that was desperately needed to replace the failed democracy the people couldn't handle? Never far from the highest principles to pop one's ego on?

Still another species.

I remember, a year or two ago, Adam Schiff commenting on Repub house members after some big revelation of Trump-Russia-Repub corruption. Wish I remembered the words, but he was saying the mood among house Repubs was stunned and lost or something like that, apparently at being forced to face what they were part of. But we know they fell in line, helped by that poor, will-follow-orders character so many were assisted into office for.