Is There Such a Thing as a Good Republican?

Or Are There Just the Shameless, the Craven, and the Complicit?

There’s a myth making the round these days. I call it the myth of the Good Republican. There’s a certain kind of Republican, often a Twitter personality, or a pundit, who crows about how “anti-Trump” they are — and hopes that the rest of us believe that they are still good, decent, sane, and civilized people. But is any of that really vaguely true? Can it be true to be a Republican and be a good, decent, and civilized person anymore?

Or is it just a myth — because it’s an oxymoron?

Has the Republican Party become something a little like the Nazi Party — something that even the faintest association with will be scorned and shamed by history?

Perhaps you think I go too too far. Good, good. There are innocent little kids literally dying of hunger, thirst, illness, and torture in American camps as we speak. Maybe you should take the question seriously — for your own sake, if not for theirs.

I think of people like David Frum (who helped start a fake war), Meghan Mccain (remind me why anyone should listen to her again? Because of her daddy?), David Brooks (who’s been wrong about everything in the last few years, from not taking Trump seriously, to pooh poohing the idea…