Republicans are captives in the tRump cult of personality

This is one of the quotable quotes attributed to President Herbert Hoover, who is often referred to as one of America's worst leaders, because he did nothing to prevent the nation from entering the Great Depression:  “There are things in the world that cannot be brought about. There are mistakes that cannot be repaired. But there is one thing sure -- that loyalty and friendship are the most precious possessions a man can have.”― Herbert Hoover, president from March 1929 to March 1933.  His administration was succeeded by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Yet, in the world of otherwise inspiring American presidential quotes, Donald Trump's (aka TFG's) polluting contribution is this:

"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Opinion echo letter published in Bakersfield.com in California:

I have to comment on the Republican Party's wrong minded support for the most cruel and anti-American president in the history of the United States. 

In our short American history, we have never had a president who divided our country with his racist statements about Mexicans being nothing but a bunch of murderers and rapists. He tried to undermine our election process by hiring false electors, and he continues his claims of a rigged or stolen election results. 

He incited a violent insurrection that tried to prevent a procedure of Congress confirming the 2020, election by starting a seditious riot, which resulted in the deaths of police officers and the destruction of government property.

The Republican Party once stood for morals and justice; it is the party of Abraham Lincoln. Now the extremist Republicans have turned out to be party of division, destruction and of Donald Trump. 

Rep. Liz Cheney post on social media. A follower named Delone Taylor commented, "A class act". 

Please heed the words of a true American hero, Liz Cheney. She will do whatever it takes to make sure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office.

"Republicans cannot be loyal to Donald Trump and to the Constitution,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), vice chair of the House Jan. 6 panel, said of the GOP’s future in a June 29, speech at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

— William Guerrero, Bakersfield, California

Cheney is the Republicans’ best hope for ending the cult of Trump

"I never thought I would live to see the day when the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, the two George Bushes and other patriotic Republicans would bow down to a defeated authoritarian leader who stubbornly refuses to accept his election loss. A defeated leader who considers himself above the law and has only contempt for the institutions and norms that made America great in the first place."