Suddenly Republicans want norms, ethics and "civility": Are they actually psychopaths?

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Suddenly Republicans want norms, ethics and "civility": Are they actually psychopaths?
Trump is still trying to steal the election — but Republicans are acting as if they never enabled this criminal

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
DECEMBER 2, 2020 2:30PM


(Salon) Throughout this post-election period, the reaction from congressional Republicans has been entirely predictable. Mostly they've remained mum about the demented behavior of their president during the last month as he has continued his precipitous dive into a rabbit hole filled with conspiracy theories so delusional that it calls for medical intervention. A few have stepped up to say publicly that Trump has a "right" to pursue legal remedies in court, while privately assuring reporters that the president just needs to act out a little bit before he finally can emotionally accept what's happened to him.

His stalwart manservant, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., initially involved himself in Trump's attempts to strong-arm state officials into throwing out legitimate votes in order to help him win. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has evidently been poring over some alleged statistical analysis he found on a dodgy website, and has convinced himself there's something hinky about votes that were counted after midnight. And Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the man Trump once accused of stealing the Iowa caucuses back in 2016, now wants the Supreme Court to take up one of the president's absurd cases.

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This brings me to today, when I watch with astonishment as Republicans who have actively collaborated with Donald Trump are partying like it's 2009, as if Donald Trump were still hosting "Celebrity Apprentice." Take, for example Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who had the unmitigated gall to go to the floor of the Senate and say this on Tuesday:

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Your jaw has to drop at the utter absurdity of any Republican saying such a thing, particularly one who not only supported Trump with his opaque, byzantine business dealings around the world but voted for every one of Trump's corrupt Cabinet picks, including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who was just revealed to have remained on the board of a Chinese company up until last year. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2020/12/02/suddenly-republicans-want-norms-ethics-and-civility-are-they-actually-psychopaths/

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Is this a rhetorical question?

Of course they are

[NoRoadUntravelled]

2. They are the party of people who long to be lied to, bamboozled and propagandized.

Seems to have worked out well for them the last few years. But nothing lasts forever and they know it. That's why they're scrambling to keep the party alive with even more lies.

[SamKnause]

4. They are EVIL !!!

They don't give a flying fuck about 99% of Americans.

They belong to the 1% club.

They want to stay members in that club.

They will do anything and everything to hold their positions of power, ANYTHING !!!

They are EVIL.

It really is that simple.

They attract cult like constituents and that is their power.

They lie, cheat, and misinform to win elections.

Their cult members lap it up time and time again.

They are EVIL.

They are my enemies.

They are enemies of my country.

[JonLP24]

5. Yes

Sociopaths at the top are not much different than the sociopaths at the bottom.