Did you think the GOP would be at this level

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10. What have they done over the last 20 yrs that made you think they wouldn't?

They whipped up bullshit scandal after bullshit scandal for Clinton, until they finally created a pretext to impeach, then went full bore to do so even though it had no chance and had no support outside of their foamy base. All the while calling Democrats traitors (Newt literally wrote a playbook for that, and promoted its use)

Then they stole an election, rammed through their pet tax cuts, reduced counterterrorism resources just in time for the biggest attack since WW2, use our armed forces for their half-assed neoconservative joyride in Iraq, ballooned he debt, gave swindlers a free (or helping) hand, never once letting up on the drumbeat about how Democrats would wreck the country...

And the moment they lost the election to a Democrat they outright said that they'd block everything, that a crappy economy would work in their favor because everyone blames would blame the president.

Over and over their takeaway has been that they'd have won if it weren't for those backstabbing RINOs.

Yes, it was always possible they wouldn't be this bad, but why would you not consider the possibility? They've been on this trajectory for years, and their internal feedback mechanisms encourage it.