The reason for their lunacy is clear, guilt. The entire Republican party betrayed our country.

[shockey80]

The Republicans in congress, the RNC all knew what Trump and Russia were up to during the 2016 campaign. They all knew what Trump and Rudy was doing in Ukraine. They all remained silent, some assisted. Not one of them had the courage to stand up and put country first. There is not one patriot among them. It's fucking disgusting and Un-American.

At some point something or someone drove the Republican party to complete corruption. To win the presidency at all cost. To seek any and all help from any country in their quest for power. They would accept any type of help, real or not to use against the Democrats. They held the door wide open for foreign interference in our elections. They lost all honor, all dignity. They turned their backs on the rule of law and the constitution.

At what point did this happen? What event triggered this? Could it have been the election of a black man to the presidency? You bet your ass it was.

Now they have been caught. They are being exposed and they are acting like lunatics trying to protect themselves. In the end it will make things worse for them and for the country.

I don't know if the Republicans understand this fact. In 2020 a Democrat may win the presidency. The new President will hire a new AG. The new AG will need a bigger (boat) office and staff in order to prosecute all the Republicans who turned to corruption. The new AG will be very busy.

[Pantagruel]

1. No prosecutions

Dems always opt to forgive and start fresh/move forward.
After Trump, maybe we should think about convicting the guilty for its preventitive value?

[dewsgirl]

2. Yes unfortunately you are correct. The fact that we had a

almost perfect president doesn't matter, to them the fact that he was black, made them lose their damned minds.

[gibraltar72]

3. Look at the convention

and the pro Russian plank that was inserted in Rs platform. Any sentient person knew then that they were bunkmates. 40 years of Republican orthodoxy gone.

[C_U_L8R]

4. That and demographics are not moving in their favor

They are desperate. Deadenders.
We are seeing their ugly final throes as the world moves beyond their selfish spiteful bigoted worldview.

[stopbush]

5. That's why they're stacking the courts with rabidly RW judges.

They’ll insure minority rule for the next 40 years. It doesn’t matter what a D POTUS or Congress does if you can run to the courts and have partisan judges overturn everything.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Desperate times

[NCjack]

7. They are honorable Republicans. The Russians bought them and

they are staying bought.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

8. A couple of years ago I was on flight with a preacher's daughter. She was going home

to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho for the holidays. I asked her what she was studying in school, and she said Russian - that she just recently changed her major from physics. I, being the chatty type, wanted to know more. This young lady said that her father had been sponsored to travel to Russia on several occasions, and that her father's church was being well received.

That conversation kind of stuck with me, especially now with revelations of so much Russian money being tossed around. AND how the NRA was invited to Russia to spread their message (yeah, right - The last thing Putin wants is armed Russian citizens.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Russia has been using the Russian Orthodox Church (very conservative) as a bridge to RWers.

https://www.newsweek.com/how-evangelicals-are-looking-putins-russia-save-christianity-godless-west-1115164

https://thinkprogress.org/history-of-christian-fundamentalists-in-russia-and-the-us-a6bdd326841d/

Lots of other articles: https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+orthodox+church+american+evangelicals

[AnotherMother4Peace]

11. Thank you for the info. I can just picture Putin's war room of influence, kompromat, bribes, etc.

[SMC22307]

10. Republicans don't do guilt or shame.

Democrats really need to stop thinking that they do, or that it's buried somewhere deep within them. It's not.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

12. Citizens United that's what caused this.

Bush passed that shit