Do the Republicans Have A Degenerative Brain Disease?

Lincoln and Ulysses S Grant. Great American Republican presidents, that served the nation well. Fast forward to 2016 and Trump becomes president, with his lies, hate speech and insurrection. Where did it all go wrong?

There is a pattern to this regression within the GOP? I reckon it starts with Nixon. Nixon kept a losing war, costing thousands of US lives in Vietnam going longer than it needed to, because he refused to be ‘that president who lost a war’, after so much blood and treasure had been lost. And so, it continued. He was also the…