In researching my Republican Freakout thread, I came across this beaut from 2011. Their detachment from reality and morality has been a long, long process.
(The thread itself may not contain any new insights, I bring it up merely to show how long their intellectual and moral deconstruction has been occurring.)
‘Borderline clowns’, pre-MTG, pre-Trump, hell, 2011 was pre-Cruz.