Nice try, New York Times

You can’t pretend you all of a sudden realized that Trump is a threat to all of American democracy and relay it to us like it’s breaking news and hope we’ll be gaslit into thanking you for informing us because we were not aware, and forget about all the coverage up until yesterday where you were explicitly favoring him for some horrifying reason

WWII.

They're Russian assets. The GOP is the Russia's most impressive achievement in the cold war.

They hate America as it is, but they love America as it used to be, or, more accurately, they love the sanitized, propagandized version of how America used to be. They want to return America to its former supposed glory.

Frankly, I hate America as it is, also, but I don't want to go back to some fantasy golden era, I just want the country to be better.

Sometimes I feel like I'm sitting in a dirty, cluttered, dilapidated house with two other people. I say to them, "this place is a mess, this is totally unacceptable, we need to clean this place and fix it up." The person in the middle says, "What are you talking about? Everything's fine." The person on the right says, "If this place is a mess, it's because you two strayed too far from this household's traditional values, and if we're going to return this home to its former glory, you two must embrace those values. If you don't, I'm going to kill you." It's frustrating, depressing, and terrifying.

The real answer is that over the decades of progressively more ossified leadership, Republicans have moved to the conservative position of ruling rather than representing. If something prevents them from ruling, then they dismantle it. The final obstacle preventing them from ruling is democracy itself.

They're jaded because America has largely rejected their social platforms and failed economically under their policies.

The GOP is unpopular, vilified, and hopelessly devoid of merit or integrity. They've decided that the only way to win America is to beat her into submission.

They're sore losers; they're losing at history, and at governance. This is their revenge.

My take is that they think that by sharing the cake with others, it means less for themselves. It's self serving greed and an inability to grasp that we are better as a joint community than as a collective of individuals.

They want "America" to mean "cis white straight Christian males are at the top, and everyone else is either second class or dead."

You can't manipulate the laws easily enough,and dirty money is traced and collected.

The GOP wants this to be more like China and Russia, they see these untouchable oligarchs and their little crooked dicks get hard.

The elitists that provide the funding behind movement conservatism and their think tanks, professors, etc., have long had it in for everything America is really supposed to stand for. They hate this country and most of the people in it.

It's ironic because cons are associated with symbolic manipulation (things like bits of colored cloth and songs and associated ritual movements) that leads (low-info) people to think they are the patriots that are for freedom and love the Constitution.

How the hell do you expect their "fix America" message to land if it isn't broken in the first place?