I can't quite get over the fact that so many people seem shocked and surprised that really, really bad things are being done by people who we've known are really, really bad for a long time and who said, if they get into power, they would do really, really bad things. [sarc]
@petergleick I can only imagine that people believed that there were processes in place to stop the really really bad people getting into power in the first place. The shock and surprise is because those processes failed.
@andycarolan @petergleick
A primary job of parties is to vet candidates for suitability to the office
The GOPux decided at some point one of their foundational principle was to through their own actions to prove government incompetent