In the previously cited story on the Biden-versus-Trump Sienna poll, the Times quotes one Arlene Myles, 75 years of age and a Republican of nearly that long, but now an independent. "I thought I was a good Republican and thought they had my values," said Ms. Myles, "but they have gone down the tubes these last few years."
They, not just he, and you know who he is. It's the entire Republican Party for which Ms. Myles now has contempt. And other than Trump and perhaps Louie Gohmert, what better embodiment of the decomposing GOP than Jim Jordan, the slimy, slithering representative from Ohio's 4th congressional district. This loudmouthed Midwestern demagogue breathes fire on behalf of today's national mob family-cum-Republican Party as furiously as any Democratic flamethrowing racist of the antebellum era.
Yesterday, for instance, in a stunningly conspicuous display of his truest partisan sentiment, Jordan brayed this about Bill Barr's manifestly corrupt Justice Department: "They’re not political, they’re just right."
Who, in the last century, made that argument? The answer — Nazis — likely came to you instantly. During his Nuremberg trial, Hermann Goering was still arguing the party line that Hitler & Co. had the perfect, even logical, prerogative to abolish all political competition, since only the National Socialists possessed the "right" solutions for Germany's early-1930s woes. His was a defense of official lawlessness, as was Jordan's.
He then made the absurd claim that "Barr is doing the Lord’s work trying to clean up [the Obama administration's DOJ corruption] so that it doesn’t happen again."
What unspecified values does Arlene Myles see missing from the contemporary Republican Party? Probably just decency, honesty, respect for the rule of law, and all other values foreign to cryptofascism.