Not that we should feel sorry for Republicans caught in this dilemma. After all, Trumpism wasn’t forced on them. They brought it on themselves, with eight years of pure obstructionism and pandering to the Tea Party. The “Party of No” became the “Party of Nothing.” Increasingly angry over Washington’s failure to deliver on anything, Republican voters were ripe for some outsider to rise up and challenge the feckless leadership of their party. Enter Trump, who not only challenged the party establishment but destroyed it.
So what’s a loyal, card-carrying Republican supposed to do?
The two sons of a Russian couple, who were among 10 deep-cover spies arrested in the United States, have given an interview about their experience for the first time. Tim and Alex Foley (now Vavilov) are the sons of Donald Heathfield and Tracey Foley, a married couple arrested in 2010 under Operation GHOST STORIES, a counterintelligence program run by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. Following their arrest, their sons, who had grown up thinking their parents were Canadian, were told that they were in fact Russian citizens and that their real names were Andrei Bezrukov and Elena Vavilova. Their English-sounding names and Canadian passports had been forged in the late 1980s by the KGB, the Soviet Union’s primary external intelligence agency.