Reaves: Accountability for GOP, not so much in Arizona

Let’s connect the ugly dots. For years former President Trump cozied up to Putin and threatened to pull the U.S. out of NATO — a move Putin salivated for.

As the Russian dictator began his slaughter of Ukrainian women and children, Trump called Putin’s invasion of Ukraine “genius and savvy.”

In response, very few Republicans even blinked at this horrifying comment. Mitt Romney did muster the courage to call Trump a moron and Lindsey Graham said Trump words were “a mistake.” Bold, right?

Meanwhile, Arizona Sen. Wendy Rogers, a gold-medal Trumpist, ranted at the white nationalist America First Political Conference. She told the crowd she fantasized about hanging her opponents and called the white nationalist audience “patriots.”

In response, the Arizona Senate passed a toothless “censure” of Rogers, but didn’t vote on kicking her out of the Republican-controlled body. Senate President Karen Fann said it “pained” her to pass the censure ... Meantime, Trumpist Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., also attended the hate-fest, which is led by openly racist Nick Fuentes who believes America should be a “White Christian” nation.

Fuentes got the crowd to chant “Putin! Putin!” and compared him to another of his idols, Adolf Hitler. No penalty for Gosar.

Connecting these ugly dots and many more served up by the GOP, the party to which I once belonged, emerges a picture of a party in search of morals, a spine and a history lesson.