One of many disturbing articles of the past couple days. Disturbing because they reveal how degenerate and amoral the Republican Party has become.
Bottomline seems that Yes, Republicans are perfectly willing to betray our country for self-enrichment.
Paul Krugman | MAY 12, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/opinion/judas-tax-cuts-and-the-great-betrayal.html?_r=1 "... How did a whole party become so, well, un-American? For this story now goes far beyond Trump. In some ways conservatism is returning to its roots. Much has been made of Trump’s revival of the term “America First," the name of a movement opposed to U.S. intervention in World War II. What isn’t often mentioned is that many of the most prominent America-firsters weren’t just isolationists, they were actively sympathetic to foreign dictators; there’s a more or less straight line from Charles Lindbergh proudly wearing the medal he received from Hermann Göring to Trump’s cordial relations with Rodrigo Duterte, the literally murderous president of the Philippines. But the more proximate issue is the transformation of the Republican Party, which bears little if any resemblance to the institution it used to be, say during the Watergate hearings of the 1970s. Back then, Republican members of Congress were citizens first, partisans second. But today’s G.O.P. is more like a radical, anti-democratic insurgency than a conventional political party. ..."There's a bunch more before and after that quote. Worth the read.