It is no exaggeration to say that Trump has thoroughly debased the GOP, which even before his leadership had more than its fair share of racists, lunatics, dimwits, sadists and actual criminals.
The most recent Republican president before Trump, after all, was a man who also lost the popular vote but was awarded the presidency by a nakedly partisan Supreme Court, only to launch a war using bogus claims of weapons of mass destruction that destabilised an entire region, with the bloody consequences still felt over two decades later.
And his is widely seen as the old, more reasonable Republican Party.
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The most recent Republican president before Trump, after all, was a man who also lost the popular vote but was awarded the presidency by a nakedly partisan Supreme Court, only to launch a war using bogus claims of weapons of mass destruction that destabilised an entire region, with the bloody consequences still felt over two decades later.
And his is widely seen as the old, more reasonable Republican Party.

The battle for the worst job in America
Donald Trump’s pick for vice-president will be the candidate who can most thoroughly abase themselves before him.
