The Republicans have entered their own kind of end-stage Bolshevism, as members of a party that is now exhausted by its failures, cynical about its own ideology, authoritarian by reflex, controlled as a personality cult by a failing old man, and looking for new adventures to rejuvenate its fortunes," wrote Nichols, who has previously
denounced the far-right evangelical takeover of the party he once backed and
warned of the poisonous influence of right-wing media.
And they don’t have anyone that even remotely possesses the character of Mikhail Gorbachev, to pick up the pieces.