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In this climate, Siegel continues, “It is very unlikely that Republican politicians will respect constitutional norms when they deem so much to be at stake in each election and significant governmental decision.”
Don’t negotiate with terrorists? Supposedly standard procedure. Unless you’re Republican. >

Huh?
Republicans are the terrorist, it's centrist who've spent the last 30 years attacking anyone that wouldn't negotiate with the terrorist.
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It's fear of conflict with the terrorist that make a moderate.  They seek to moderate the extremism instead of fighting it. >

Both the GOP and its voters have helped create this hellscape by continuing to support these people and the platform, despite the risk. There may have once been "Moderates" within the party, but now they're either gone or complicit. And instead of the party having a reckoning, they keep acting like this is going to end up working out for them.
At this point, both logic and empathy are useless. There's no negotiation, there's no teamwork, there's no acceptance or tollerance. This is the monster Trump helped create, and now everyone will have to deal with the consequences. >

Trump has gradually had to lower his standards to remain relevant. He didn’t care about these crazy pockets of republicans until he started losing popularity. >

Great article. The GOP has been taken over by people scoring high on the psychopathy scale. >

I think everyone is scared to admit this about Republicans because that would also mean admitting that Republicans are an ideological enemy that must be defeated, which in turn would mean admitting that an impending civil war/balkanization of the United States is likely. 
Basically our collective fear of the breakup of this nation keeps us from acting against literal Nazis on our soil. Like an abused wife afraid to leave her husband because she doesn't want to fracture the family. I don't have high hopes for our world's future, especially our country's. >

The end is near for America as we know it, nobody fixes anything and it just stacks up on the “to do list”