“The GOP threw frugality and fiscal responsibility away long ago, initially in the Reagan years, but now on a stunning scale involving trillion-dollar deficits as far as can be forecast. It abandoned most of its beliefs in fidelity and character when it embraced a liar, cheat, and philanderer as its nominee and then as president.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/republican-party-conservative/571747/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/republican-party-conservative/571747/