Republicans change their stances within a matter of minutes.

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18. Authoritarianism...

... has always been a central tenet of the Republican belief system. They just learned to mask it after getting slapped down hard when they made the mistake of trying to recruit retired Major General Smedley Butler to do the wetwork for their coup d'etat against FDR in '33, I think it was. Butler dropped a dime on 'em.
If the perpetrators had suffered the punishment they deserved, the brazen treachery to which the nation is now being subjected might not have come to pass. Legend has it that Dubya's grandpappy was one of the scumbags, but a lot of history gets whitewashed when it threatens to expose the breadth and depth of the ingrained perfidy of those defiling the top of the financial food chain. Prescott Bush reportedly got into trouble for doing business with Germany through a Dutch bank during the war.