Today's SR is mostly focused on a growing trend that should concern all of us. I am speaking here about the level of criminality that defines the Republican Party. I've picked just a few stories that have come out in the past several days, and I could have added half a dozen more. Both parties have had criminals amongst their number, I want to be clear about that, but the criminality of the Republican Party is unlike anything ever seen before in U.S. history. There are so many criminal Republicans that it has become not just a story of individual cases, but the story of a trend. The media treats these as stories about individuals, they don't seem to see the trend. But to me, it is the trend that is the big takeaway from all these stories. We are in grave danger as a two-party political system nation, when lying, willful ignorance, and criminality are defining characteristics of one of those parties.