What . @maddow is describing right now, between Republican Senators laundering Russian agitprop into fake investigations of Joe Biden, to the gutting of the Postal Service, to Pompeo having to sneak to warn Russia not to kill our troops while Trump talks to Putin EIGHT TIMES...

... is nothing short of the transformation of an American political party -- the Republicans -- into an arm of a hostile foreign power. The Republican Party is not really the party of Trump. They are the party of Russia. That is a scary but unfortunately real thing.

The party had already descended into a racial-cultural insurgency, but this is even worse. There is almost nothing left of Abe Lincoln's party beyond racial grievance, demographic panic, greed & ruthless cruelty, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, anti-democracy and a cult of personality.

My pro-Republican, Reaganite father must be spinning in his grave. Here's a piece on Pompeo's sneaking... https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a33548693/trump-russian-bounties-mike-pompeo/