Mechanical "Nasty Cdn" Fella

My good friend Dave in the UK - I've posted about him before - was a longtime Republican when he lived here. He tells me that Trump's erratic behavior, ill health, grift, threats, and ultimatums, disturbing as they are, are less disturbing than the continued enablement of him by the GOP. He says he and his friends consider themselves to be politically astute, right of center, pro-democracy world citizens, and they conclude that it's the GOP that has killed America on the world stage. He says Trump embarrasses America, but he's been empowered by the GOP. He adds that nobody would weep for the Iranian regime, but the world still sees the Iranian people as real flesh and blood with families and dreams and emotions. Same as they see Israelis and Palestinians, and immigrants, legal or otherwise - these are people, they are not purely reflective of their governments. He concludes that - the American GOP has become barren of humanity and make no distinction for humanity. They are about pure politics and political gain. He talked my ear off about Starlink and Ukraine. He thinks a large chunk of educated people know that Trump and his cabinet are unchecked sociopaths, but he concludes that the GOP "chooses to imitate Trump's sociopathy" for grift and gain, and he hates the shallowness of that. And the fact that it's not the exception but the norm within the GOP, is why he and his friends conclude: the GOP is killing America and needs to be gutted. He says if he still lived here, he'd vote Blue all the way.