And what about the bipartisan tax deal, which extended Trump-era tax breaks for businesses and expanded the child tax credit? Bloomberg News reported a few weeks ago that Senate Republicans "don't want to hand President Joe Biden an election-year victory on the legislation."

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa was quite candid on this point, telling NBC News he wasn't inclined to support a compromise measure that "makes the president look good" ahead of this year's elections.

A few weeks earlier, House Republicans also derailed a bipartisan compromise on border and immigration reforms. Asked why, Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas said, "Let me tell you, I'm not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden's approval rating."

In other words, on a wide variety of domestic priories - from the border to the economy, cancer research to internet access - Republicans are putting election goals over national needs.

Didn't happen. Not only were Democrats unafraid to provide help to American citizens while a Republican was in the White House, they proposed even more relief efforts and governmental financial support across a wide swath of legislation easing the pain of pandemic-caused shutdowns and layoffs.

When one party in a tacitly two party system abdicates all semblances of actually caring about the needs of their own constituencies when coming in conflict with their partisan electoral needs. That should tell voters something very important. The only thing the GOP politicians and RNC care about is grabbing and holding onto power, full stop.

And that should be a powerful reason to keep them from ever achieving their goals if one wants government to actually serve the needs of the people instead of the needs of millionaire and billionaire donors seeking to ease America's transition into an authoritarian-led oligarchy, nee kleptocracy.