Us and Them Is All the Rage

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4. "Pluralism requires both law and ethics to function. Without ethics the law fails"

The law did not fail because of mango Mussolini. It failed because ethics had long ago been abondoned by the republican party.

The America first Nazi collaborators of the 1930s and 50s (listen to ULTRA by Rachel Maddow) who had no consequences.
McCarthy and his red scare nonsense.
Nixon stealing the election by tanking the peace talks and getting a lot of people killed.
Bush senior, Alexander Haig, etc. blackmailing to protect Spiro Agnew.
Reagan, Baker, etc Al (including Haig and Bush again) paying the Iranian to hold the hostages.
Billy Barr working hard to cover up Iran contra as Attorney General.
Stealing the 2000 election by republicans on the supreme Court
WMD lies.
Mitch McConnell blocking everything then reversing course to push thru rethug judges.

Mango is the latest symptom. But this guy is correct. We cannot find mutual ground because the last ethical republican died with John McCain (and he had a fair amount of party over country in him).

They had one last chance to show they had ethics. To convict Trump on impeachment when he was wounded and disgraced. But they showed that ethics and the rule of law were dead when they acquitted him and allowed him to run again.