As My Good 'Ole Dad Would've Put It: You Pays Your Money and You Takes Your Choice...Or As My Would've Been (Replacement) Dad (Richard Welch) Might've Expressed Things: You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Yes, America's Republican Party Has - Inexorably - Made Their (Overall, Collective) Decision...and America and Our World Will - Ultimately - Never Be the Same Again...As Such Leads Inexorably Ever Onwards Towards the Very Last Days of (Pre-Advent) Human History: The End of All Things...But Woe Unto That Man - Or Woman - Who Tries to Second-Guess His/Her Maker and Attempts to Precipitate That Fateful Judgment Day...To His/Her Own Ultimate Destruction...

But there were voices - aplenty - in the U S Republican Party itself - in open and active dissent from its Trump-centric outlook over recent days, weeks, months and years...

...but of course these have all been effectively ignored and marginalized and demonized...

see, for instance, the shameful treatment of Louisiana's Bill Cassidy, North Carolina's Richard Burr et al... 

A tome or two would hardly suffice to even begin to cover off such shameful if only all too predictable *'developments', however it's nevertheless 'pleasing' to see the **sort of 'folks' whose voices have been raised in (unavoidably) impotent protest against the same...

The likes of the long-time and well-respected conservative Time columnist George Wills. One-time prospective Republican presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as former California Governor Arnold Scwarzeneeger. Ten former Defence Chiefs of whom five (half), as appointees of Republican presidents, would doubtless have (usually) been Republican Party members/ 'subscribers'...

Numerous others utterly unknown to me (as of course are all the preceding and following, but as in not being names one generally hears of in the media), nonetheless - from online posts and U-Tube videos let me at least name - and anything but shame! - one Chris Vance, evidently a former chair(man) of the ***(one-time great) Washington state Republican Party, and these days a political independent. For now suffice for me to refer to a (January 21, 2021) 'Special to the (Seattle) Times' by Mr Vance, entitled 'Principle over Power: Let's form a new Republican Party' (accessed c/o www.seattletimes.com after I 'googled' 'Republican Party Senator(s) Dissent' etcetera.

Alongside this may I also highly recommend a brilliant (extended) opinion piece by Anne Applebaum, contributer to The Atlantic, whose 'The Collaborators: History Will Judge the Complicit: Why Have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?'

Excellent stuff, indeed...and sorely, desperately needed in this ever-so-fraught day and age of petty partisan politics...

...and no - although I know it's not the done thing to speak ill of the dead - and I wish him well for his day of reckoning before the Almighty - I for one do not consider that the late talkback show host Rush Limbaugh added one iota to the American (let alone global) political conversation...

*Of course these movements are anything but progress in the classical understanding thereof, rather a reactionary retreat into 'neanderthalism' and 'medievalry'...

**Including if only 'in spirit' one-time Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, to whom I have referred recently (and probably awhile ago on a couple occasions also)...and, obviously, one-time presidential nominee Mitt Romney...

...and, of course, the two former (President) 'Bushes' (though Yours Truly is not exactly the greatest fan of either, one cannot but help respecting and even admiring their willingness to 'go on the record' as not supporting, as in voting for, Donald J Trump at one or other or both of Presidential elections 2016 and 2020. especially in view of the dire public denunciations and excoriations which they would most assuredly have known they would subsequently and consequently be liable to experience, and indeed did verily undergo...

***I'm thinking here of the long-time Washington state Senator (****whose name temporarily eludes me) who (the ultimately ill-fated, Richard Milhaus Nixon-trounced) 1972 Democratic Party hopeful George McGovern evidently had seriously considered placing upon his own presidential ticket...

****I believe it's Mark Hatfield, who had the gonads to stand up to President Bush Senior, as indeed did the oft-derided Barry Goldwater to President Ronald Reagan, no less...