GOP Politicians are not actually personally less honorable then they were in 1973

[Sir Mohamed]

Ugh, yes they are less honorable. 98% of them aren't honorable at all. Not saying everything was fine in the 1970s, for sure it wasn't, but Trump and his clownish cult followers are antidemocratic and corrupt scum. The GOP ultimately abandoned Nixon during Watergate for a break-in and its cover-up. That was far less of a crime than everything Mr. Trump has done. Instead, they enabled him, praised him and turned a blind eye to his many power abuses such as turning the Justice Dept. into his personal lawfirm. He didn't have to face consequences for that or January 6. McCarthy is now pushing anyone remotely critical of their orange buffoon out while MTG is getting a free ride. Anyone continuing to enable all the nonsense should have no place in public office.

And Cheney and alike don't need to appear as the big defenders of the rule of law now. She and many others who claim to be outraged, including ex-officers like Boehner, rode the tiger when it was politically expedient instead of telling their voters the truth than Trumpism and the Tea Party are crap and that Hannity and Limbaugh are lying to them. All in all, the Trump era has revealed to true colors of GOP politicans we previously could have seen as mere political opponents and not enemies of American institutions and democracy.