Any other DUers notice that Mittens aka Mr 47%

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23. That's all too possible. They've become very awful

under the encouragement of a succession of increasingly lawless and predatory leaders. But the Repub Party is pretty damned close to breaking itself along with the country. Genuine extremism is bad for business as well as everyone else, and what's happening may just result in a change of trajectory, or at least a falling away, leaving the worst of them an isolated extremist faction.

After all, both Trump and the Tea Party were rebellions against what they rightly saw as the Republican establishment betraying them to their very wealthy donors. They want regulations and social programs for themselves even as they idiotically support eliminating them to spite others. Trump promised them the economically progressive world and then screwed them over.

As I said, I have hope.