Trump has changed my world view in a profound way.

[paleotn]

36. He who will not be named, the Republican establishment,

...their big money donors like the Kochs, Adelson, the Mercers, the Devos, the sycophants and political hacks like Atwater, Norquist and Rove, the sociopaths who've taken over Congress and state legislatures, the vote thieves and suppressors, the talk radio and faux news propagandists, et al., have had one goal in mind for 30+ years. To turn the US into a kleptocracy....a banana republic writ large.......and they hatched that idea when Putin and his cronies were still small time apparatchiks. It's just that the Russians had a much shorter row to hoe then their American counterparts. But all in all, they are the same.....grifters, liars and thieves. And our country, the once the bastion of liberty and democracy, after years of lies and manipulation, was finally stupid enough to let them take over.