text: "Congressional Republicans have often taken a wait-and-see attitude toward the dishonoring and destruction of their party. Now they can hardly deny that Trump's worst moments are his most authentic moments, or that his definition of loyalty requires defending the indefensible....A society's treatment of prisoners is a measure of its commitment to human dignity. Some of these men and women are guilty only of the wrong geography in trying to feed their families. Others have done terrible things. But they are still — all of them — men and women, human beings, at the complete mercy of the state. According to Jewish and Christian teaching, they bear God's image, which can never be completely effaced. Treating them humanely is the expression of a defining national belief: that human rights are not earned or granted, they are recognized. Or not."
  
  Universal truths.  The Republican Party is the poster child for immoral, unethical, corrupt, greedy, unsavory, uncaring behavior.