Not a winner among them.

In the past, if you took any group of like-minded men and women, you might find one or two who had no moral compass. There would be that person or persons who was willing to lie to get their way, that rare individual who harbored a hatred for someone that preventing them from behaving in a civil manner, that family man who didn't care if he set a good example for his children. Such a person would be looked upon with scorn by his compatriots, regarded as a person of little character, certainly not someone to be cultivated and emulated. None of this holds true for today's Republican party. I can't recall a time when so many people shared the same lack of integrity, honesty, patriotism and courage. I can't remember ever seeing a group so willing to tell the same lies, vilify the same innocent people, so blatantly promote their racism, and work so hard to make sure that the poor and hungry could neither achieve success nor feed their children. These do not seem like individual men and women to me, but a group overtaken by a mass madness that has deprived them of all reason.  There is only one possible excuse for their inhumane behavior, and that is that at one point every one of these persons had a pod put under their bed.