One would think there would be at least one Republican to lead their Party out of the abyss?

[kentuck]

But, they follow blindly. The Party of Abraham Lincoln no longer stands for anything, it only follows the siren song of the pied piper.

In actuality, the Republican Party has been lost for a long while. It has stood for nothing. Whatever was good for the people at large, they were against. No higher taxes, no more government spending, except for Defense Dept. The rest of their agenda was mostly anti-social. They were against free-thought about religion. They were against abortion. They were for prayer in school.

But, that is no longer the Republican Party. They have sacrificed their ideals for dreams of power.

It is amazing that no Republican has stepped forward to try and save their Party? One can only assume they are content with the direction they are going?

Our democracy is under severe threat at this moment. Republicans are unwilling to do anything to save it.

It reminds us of Diogenes. He wandered around his village in broad daylight, with a lantern, looking for one honest man.

[LonePirate]

1. The right's leaders do not want to upset their voters who are strongly in TFG's corner.

They have seen too many instances where those opposed to TFG have suffered undesirable consequences.

[kentuck]

2. They are not leaders - they are followers.

They are scared to death of their base.

[myohmy2]

3. "...they are content with the direction they are going..."

...that says it all...

...they don't care about the sanctity of the vote, democracy or our country...they are the Party of greed, power, lies and hate...

...that's all they've ever been...

...now they don't even bother to pretend otherwise...

...Republicans...

[msongs]

4. every spineless one of them fears the night of the long knives nt

[First Speaker]

5. The Lincoln Project people tried...

...and got drummed out of the party for their troubles. Steve Schmidt is now a Dem, and I welcome him. I don't think the GOP is salvageable at this point. They are an open, neo-fascist Putinite or Orbanite party, and only some extreme national calamity will change that...

[RockRaven]

6. The party leaders aren't leaders. They follow the mob from the front, if that makes sense.

They all want to be at the head of the crowd, but know they cannot actually tell the crowd where to go. Occasionally you see them guess the mob's future direction wrong, and they end up way out of step with the mob, then they scramble to run back into position at the head of the crowd.

The reason they are all like this is that there's a selection pressure in the GQP for such fecklessness. The ones who genuinely would try to lead the mob this way or that have been winnowed out long ago. The ones who are left are the ones who don't even have an instinct to ever try. Ever.