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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This op-ed by Mr. KellyAnne Conway and Neil Katyal explain things plainly:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/12/14/trumps-claim-that-he-didnt-violate-campaign-finance-law-is-weak-dangerous/

I am loathe to understand how or what the GOP is standing by this mess.[/quote]

The rationalization is that they are getting conservative judges but that argument just does not make sense when they just don't seem to care about the rule of law being flouted so egregiously.  
Do you want conservative judges because you want the country to operate as closely as possible to its founding principles (rule of law, independence from foreign influence/control, robust democratic institutions including a free press, independent judiciary, coequal legislative branch etc)
OR 
do you want socially conservative judges who ascribe to values that are not necessarily reflected in our founding documents- a bigger role for religion in our political life, more control over the personal decisions of others (sexual orientation, birth control) etc.

What we are seeing is that most of the people who ascribe to the first view have been frozen out of the Republican party - they are never trumpers, they have retired from Congress because they could not win a primary or they are from an earlier generation (in the George HW Bush mold)

[b]Today's Republican party appears to hew mostly to the second brand of Conservatism.[/b]  I think a lot of independents are starting to figure this out.

The other dominant group in today's Republican party are the Ayn Rand acolytes.  These are folks who don't seem to have much of a moral compass in my opinion.  They think everybody is just like them (motivated by pure self interest) and so they can justify every transgression with a shrug and an "everybody does this" attitude.  In reality there is a lot of grey in politics and there is a big difference between actors who operate in the light grey and actors who operate in the dark grey.  [/quote]

Which isn't really conservatism. It is more akin to a neo-fascist Christian authoritarianism.[/quote]

True and which would line up very well with what is happening in Russia right now with people who are influenced by the rabid writings of people like Dugin and Ilyin:

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-how-trump-s-foreign-policy-is-making-russian-fascism-great-again-1.6167199
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2016/dec/19/trump-putin-same-side-new-world-order

https://www.wsj.com/articles/czar-vladimir-putin-acolytes-want-to-bring-back-the-monarchy-11544732680
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