@Lee Elder:
Yet another person claiming that the Republican Party is a cult and is degrading into a deplorable state. No real reasons, just something about Trump, and families of immigrants, and you know, other reasons. But hey, I was willing to entertain the idea that there might be a point in there somewhere. So I clicked on the article by the former Republican strategist, conscious stricken by the state of his party... and this is the first paragraph:
For months, Steve Schmidt, a longtime Republican strategist, has warned about the degradation of his party, saying the Trump administration is responsible for a “coarsening of this country” and calling the president a “useful idiot” for Russia.
Did you catch that last part? He is a useful idiot for Russia? Do you understand how that completely and utterly undermines his (the author, not Trump) credibility? You have any clue what that one statement means?
Is this a Republican moderate? Lee Elder, do you think Putin is pulling the strings of this President?