Yes and...

... there is the angle taken by the author that everything the Republican Party has ever stood for - American imperialism overseas, the military-industrial complex at all costs to quality of life at home, the imposition of Democracy on every culture on the planet, eternal war under the guise of anti-terrorism - is suddenly the "failed state" and due to the "deep state actors" that are some vaguely defined people in the past.

Not Strom Thurmond and Newt Gingrich and Paul Ryan and John Boehner and G. W/HW Bush and Dick Cheney and ... every Republican that has served in office back to Reagan!

And it's just crazy enough, that I can actually believe that people who still call themselves Republicans - like my Mom - could actually believe this horseshit.

I mean... yesterday Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in one sentence that her comments about "people in the FBI losing faith in James Comey" was just something she "made up on the spot", and IN THE VERY NEXT SENTENCE says that the thing that really upsets her the most is, "being called a liar."

The capacity for the Republican mind to complete alter the facts, history, and their own words to meet some fluid "core set of beliefs they have always held" is truly a thing to behold.

And it's going to fucking work, too.

That's the scariest part. They've already won 2020, and I think are setting up for 2024 now.