re: Here is what has been wrong with the Republicans

Maybe on a baseline level but when you peel back the layers it is revealing that the GOP have been playing by a different set of rules, albeit a set of rules that has a long standing tradition. The Dems chunked the rules of common decency that had been observed up and until that point. The GOP was very slow to adjust.

Golf has a lot of rules and is a game of honor, often resulting in self imposed penalties. That is the ethos of the GOP. The GOP has been the the GOB.

Now the Dems are like street ball in the hood. Prison rules and no fouls.