To reiterate: Donald Trump is naming an architect of the torture regime that stained the name and reputation of the United States to head the CIA. He named a man who secretly canoodled with Russia's top spies to be the secretary of state. Both will be confirmed by the GOP Senate.
Would it even shock you if Trump, who so admires murderous autocrats like Duterte and Putin, restarted the Bush-Cheney torture scheme? Isn't it much more likely that Tillerson is out bc he finally turned on Putin than bc he was dismantling the state department as Putin wants?
And what does it say about the Republican Party that their only response to all of this has been a combination of silence, particularly on the part of their leadership, and complicity, as in the laughable, Putin-excusing "report" from the House Intelligence Committee?
At some point, someone must step forward and rescue this republic. And it clearly won't be anyone who's running this country right now.
