Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Lawmaker describes heated encounter with Marjorie Taylor Greene" video.
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So whatever happened to the Republicans as the “party of law and order”? True, Richard Nixon, who first branded the party that way, was lying when he famously said, “I am not a crook.” Both Watergate and the Iran-Contra scandal rank among the most notorious examples of executive branch lawlessness in our nation’s history. Well, that was until Trump’s January 6 insurrection.
Dems have now positioned themselves as the only ones willing to uphold the rule of law and the Constitution.
At the time of Watergate, authoritarians were more evenly divided between the parties, but they’ve become much more concentrated in the GOP since then. Republicans have become more inclined to lawlessness — although it's not tolerated on the part of others, of course!
The lawlessness we see today from the GOP isn’t new — just vastly more blatant than it was during Watergate. But the infrastructure supporting, defending and excusing it, is dramatically more powerful and robust, and the authoritarian mass base is much more consolidated within their voter base.
Trump’s blatant endorsement of lawlessness, has only encouraged rabid lawlessness from his supporters.
“Bullies, narcissists and sociopaths exist in every walk of life and in every town and city in every country,” Hughes said. “If encouraged by a pathological leader, this minority will enthusiastically step forward to act beyond the law, to target opponents, and violently assert their pathological values. If this process has the support of a critical mass of the general population, as Trump has, history suggests that societies can find themselves powerless to stop further descent into darkness."
--Ian Hughes
How small-town bullies andSadists had been empowered in Stalin’s Russia, as described by Ian Hughes in his book “Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy.”
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