“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
Abraham Lincoln, September 8, 1854.
In his first television interview since being pardoned by President Trump, longtime Republican consultant Roger Stone…praised the president as the greatest since Abraham Lincoln.
Yes, the Republican Party, nowadays, is controlled by crooks, frauds and pimps who ignore history, reality and truth…all of the time.
Eideard 
“Today’s GOP, led by Trump, is not the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln. In fact, it is not the party of Ulysses S. Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan, either.
Instead, it is a party increasingly dominated by activists who are overwhelmingly white, always aggrieved, virulently militant about the Second Amendment (and their rights not to wear a face mask during a pandemic), pro-Confederacy and openly racist.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/06/20/republican-name-only-trump-and-death-lincolns-party-column/3221447001/
“Donald Trump is the past, present, and future of the Republican Party. And that is because the GOP is no longer a traditional political party designed to win elections so that it can enact a policy agenda. It is a personality cult built around grievance. …There are still people who believe that the party can go back to what it was in 2014. These people are living in a fantasy.” https://newrepublic.com/article/160212/republican-party-dead-its-trump-cult-now
“The G.O.P. Can No Longer Be Relied On to Protect Democracy https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-gop-can-no-longer-be-relied-on-to-protect-democracy
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgement of Courts; and the worse than savage mobs, for the executive ministers of justice. This disposition is awfully fearful in any community; and that it now exists in ours, though grating to our feelings to admit, it would be a violation of truth, and an insult to our intelligence, to deny.”
Abraham Lincoln, “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions”, an address before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois January 27, 1838 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1/1:130?hi=0;rgn=div1;singlegenre=All;sort=occur;subview=detail;type=simple;view=fulltext;q1=by+suicide