For you're not in the United States, you may think that our politics are batshit crazy*. Not entirely. There are generally 4 groups of Republicans (in reverse order).
The Ugly: Congress Money Grabbers
These Four stains on humanity trade in lies, outrage and money. It turns out that the crazier you are, the more money you make from Republican donors Sometimes due to a perceived threat from liberals, but most often due to Republicans in general wanted to "trigger the libs". Americans should know them all, as they accomplish nothing but sound and fury. The list is below:
Marjorie Taylor Green (Florida): Famous for many thing, most notably comparing mask mandates to Hitler's gas chambers and telling her constituents to shoot CDC employees that go door to door to offer vaccine shots ("Stand your ground works!").
Rand Paul: Once a reasonable, if often wrongheaded, libertarian. This Ophthalmologist Doctor and son of a Congressmen is now the voice of no reason in the Senate. His specialty is to try to yell and discredit Dr. Fauci, the CDC, masks and the vaccines.
Lauren Boebert (Colorado): First term Congresswoman that hasn't finished high school. Her sad luck story begins with an abandoned mother with governmental aid when she was a child. Now she runs a cafe where you can happily wear and wave a gun and cannot wear a mask. She is against all aid to families now that she got hers.
Matt Geatz (Jail? I mean Florida): He was the biggest suck-up to Trump and the Trump Cult. He offered to resign and represent Trump during his second impeachment. He has gone full on crazy since being implicated in multiple sex scandals with his high school friend and prostitutes, underage sex and child sex trafficking i.e."Taking a minor - in this case 17 year old - across state or national borders to the purpose of sex."
The Ugly (Governors)
These four are trying to ride their asses into the White House by being Little Trumps. They are trying to follow his example and lead on matters great and small. It usually works, until they get too full of themselves (tall poppies in Australian) and Trump slaps them down.
Ron Desantis (Florida): He is the lead in the crazy town race. Florida leads the nation in Delta Covid cases and he has responded by banning masks in schools (yes, banning not requiring), ensuring bars, nightclubs and Miami (which is only nightclubs and bars) are not allowed to ask vaccine status or wear masks and trying to ban Cruise Lines from asking about vaccine status (just overturned by a federal judge).
Greg Abbot (Texas): He ties Covid to only illegals immigrants from Mexico. Like Desantis, he is trying to outlaw mask mandates from cities or schools. He is also in a long term fight trying to pass anti-voting laws.
Kristi Nome (South Dakota): She never let a mask mandate go into effect, despite having the greatest Covid death rate in the country (until Delta). Most deaths were immigrants working in pig and cow processing plants - so no one in South Dakota cared. She also signed legislation making it almost impossible for native Americans to vote - they have many indigenous land-reservations in South Dakota) and the highest percentage of Native Americans in any state.
Mike Parson: (Missouri) He's an anti-vax dipshit who presided over the start of the Covid pandemic, and refused to allow masking. He's kind of a place holder for all the other Republican governors who try to follow Trump, but aren't quite crazy enough.
The Bad
This is primarily a group of Congressional members that loudly condemned Trump and the Jan 6th insurrection, but have now backed the ex-President and killed a bi-partisan commission to investigate.
Susan Collins (Maine): She is famous for - in the first impeachment trail - for saying Donald Trump had learned his lesson. Which is only true if the lesson is he can get away with anything.
Joe Manchin (West Virginia): Joe is a Democrat, technically. However, with a 50/50 split in the Senate, Joe wields immense power and normally uses it to quash Democratic ideas. He has extensive ties to coal industry (from his state, which makes sense since they produce a ton of coal) and Republican fund raisers (which makes sense if you see his voting record).
Kevin McCarthy (Representative - California): Kevin is the leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives. He is famous or calling up Trump during the insurrection and begging Trump to call the insurrectionists off. Trump responded that the "patriots" must want him to be President more than McCarthy. McCarthy denounced the President but then, almost immediately, visited Mar a Lago to grovel for forgiveness. The very first of what was to be a long line of supplicants.
Mitch McConnell (Kentucky): Like McCarthy, the Senate Leader of the Republicans denounced and then roundly defended Trump. He also said (in both Obama's and Biden's terms) his primary job was to be sure that nothing got done that would help the President.
The Good
Now with this I do not mean good Democrats, these people are all Republicans. But they have stayed true to their oath of office and denounced the January 6th insurrection.
Liz Cheney (Wyoming): She was stripped of her leadership position - 3rd in the Republican delegation of the House - for refusing to endorse Trump's lies - AND not shutting up about it. VERY Conservative Republican, but honest and puts the Constitution first.
Mitt Romney (Utah): Who thought I would be proud of Mitt Romney. He is one of the very few believers of bi-partisan work in the Senate. He worked to improve child care (and child tax credits) with Democrats. He voted for Impeachment twice. He continues to speak out against Trump.
Adam Kinzinger (Illinois): A newly elected Republican. He was in the military and treats the Constitution with respect.
Finally Brad Rassenpertter: He stands in for all the Republican officials at the state level that certified the election and stopped an election theft. This happened in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania as well. All are being primaried (this is a situation where another person in your same party runs for election during the primary versus of letting the incumbent save their money for the general election). This Georgia Secretary of State refused Trump personally when Trump pressed him to find "only 11,000 votes!".
There are plenty of good Republicans, but they are staying silent, or moving to the "Independent" column now.
* The etymology of "Bat Shit Crazy" seems to have 2 different origins.
1: It refers to the fact that the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum resides in bat guano, and, since the fungus infects the brain of the host, makes them behave in a psychotic manner.
2: From "Bats in the Belfry" which refers to the bats who lived in church bellfrys and interfered with the ringing of the bells
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