Well done, Tam. If it warrants, do you mind if I share what you have posted here?
I think much of what has happened, is because the Republicans are cowards. I'm reading David Horowitz's book "Big Agenda". I got it for $9.99 for subscribing to NewsMax. I was a subscriber for several years but let the subscriptions lapse. Anyway, on page 11, there is a paragraph that deserves repeating:
In talking about the lack of support from Republicans (ie: some former members of the G.W. Bush White House even went to far as to announce they were voting for the Democrat, Hillary Clinton; also by name was Mitt Romney and Evan McMullin) Horowitz writes,"Were these 'Never Trumpsters intimidated by the massive barrage of baseless, malicious, and overblown attacks on the candidates character, which permeated the media and the culture at large? Or did they withdraw simply because they lacked the stomach for the fight? One prominent conservative concluded that they simply didn't have the will to win. The Republican party is not interested in winning", Rush Limbaugh told the millions in his radio audience."
"It clearly is not interested in winning. And if you want to be even more specific that that, it is paramountly obvious that they're not even interested in defeating the Democrats. It's just mind-boggling. All these years I've been doing this program I was under the impression the Republican Party wanted to defeat Democrats. And as the years have gone by, it's become obvious to me that's not their No. 1 objective. "We have Republicans--to one degree or another working as hard as the Democrats are to defeat Donald Trump. The country we know and love is being torn apart and rebuilt in ways that we don't want, and the Republican Party doesn't even seem to care about that. The Republican Party seems just as eager as the Democrats to pronounce their voters as extreme kooks."
Horowitz goes on to write..."Republicans generally didn't understand the threat posed by the Democrats or didn't have the will to resist it--or both. It was a failure of nerve by the entire party, which, despite landslide victories that have given them their biggest majority in the House in nearly 100 years, would not use their power to block Obama's socialist agenda."
On page 3, he writes on liberals, "...they will be inflamed by every step Trump takes along the path to reviving a battered country and restoring its constitutional order. These are the angry voices of a political culture that is at war with America. Worse yet, this is the dominant culture in our universities, in our media, in our judiciary, in government unions, and in the shadow political universe of non-profits with billions of tax-free dollars at their disposal."