Sander Janssen

"We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn This is a perfect desription of the Republican Party. Read any account of a totalitarian state, and the citizens are afraid to speak the truth. So it is inside the Republican Party. For all their talk of "freedom," Republican elected officials are now afraid to speak the truth about Trump & their party. Like those in Russia or North Korea, they whisper the truth to their spouses late at night. They look at their children and see the disapointment in their eyes and try to explain why it has to be this way. Look at the face of Tim Scott standing next to Donald Trump as he humiliates him and that is the face of a man who has lost all self-respect. I know these people. I get emails from grown children of former clients asking me what happened to their fathers or mothers. I used to just lie and try to make them feel better, telling them it would pass and their father/mother was still a good person. Now I just don't respond. Republican politicians need each other to covince themselves it has to be this way. But it doesn't and in the quiet of the night, when the self-loathing threates to wash over them, they hate what they have become. Then they get up the next morning and do it again. These are sad, broken men and women who may deserve our pity but not our respect. They are betraying what it means to be an American. History will call them all cowards.