republicans being republicans? Count on it!

I am confounded at all of the people who are shocked by the naked displays of power, rage, and fury that republicans have exhibited since Trump's coup d'etat usurped the presidency, and that were so visibly on display from their senators and Supreme Court nominee yesterday. 
This is precisely what republicans have been since Richard Nixon's campaign, nomination, and election in 1968. Nothing has changed. Nothing is new. This is what they are. This is what they have been since my childhood.
Oh, every now and then a Howard Baker, a Colin Powell, a John McCain, a Jeff Flake, or a Bob Corker will make some weak, feigned effort at showing some concern about what his party is doing. They all had/have beautiful words of concern about what their party is doing. But not one of them, not one, has ever put his country over his party and stood up to what has happened to us at the hands of republicans.
Maverick? Conservative with a conscience? Independent voice?
BULLSHIT!
Every single one of them has toed the line and voted attack after attack after attack on the American people.
And, if we continue to sit back and let them, they are just getting started.
But, hey, if we allow them to steal elections, hack voting machines and manipulate vote totals, commit treason with Russians, nominate pedophiles to high office, and put rapists on the Supreme Court (we are shortly going to be up to TWO sexual predators on our highest court, to cover for the one in the Oval Office), then we are getting just exactly what we deserve.
It is up to us, the American people.
And I have less confidence in that statement today than I have ever had in my life.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." -Henry Louis Mencken
Mencken the acerbic editor of the Baltimore Sun, also said, "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." He should have included the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Supreme Court.
(Note: Mencken was not a good or decent man, but he was dead-on correct in assessing the future of American governance.)