Republicans have become a radical insurgency — ideologically extreme, contemptuous of the inherited policy regime, scornful of compromise, unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of their political opposition.
Christopher Ingraham, in the Washington Post
As I’ve been saying for years now, the Republicans are no longer ‘conservatives’ in any meaningful sense of the word; they are nihilistic vandals. The disgrace is that the party leadership, who should know better, whore themselves so readily to that base.