This is an All of The Republican Party Effort. Pappy Bush, Bush Junior, Trump. This is the end result of a GOP drive for absolute presidential power that started in the wake of Watergate.
In Dark Money, by Jane Mayer, she says it started in the ‘30s.The rich began financing free, for credit law classes that equated money with rights. They financed free 2-week vacas that require justices to sit thru seminars that teach the same thing. RBG attended one. Generations of the rich did this
Right, it bothers me when I see people say, "Oh, x former GOP leader wasn't this bad." Well, yeah, 3 ft from your house isn't far, either, but if you keep walking, you're going to end up someplace else, so it matters what direction you're walking in, and it's dangerous if you don't care.
The best you can say about any former GOP leader is that they didn't care where the party ended up as long as they got what they wanted during their tenure. (With the possible exception of Goldwater, who really did seem to get how awful getting in bed with the Christian Right was going to turn out.)
This is a predictable result of liberalism itself, and not particularly an end result. It can't be due to a drive by the GOP because that doesn't explain why it's happening in the rest of the world.
