The most telling statement of the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday was, "You guys weren't going to fact-check."
Nothing these days says Republican like "We lie. The truth is not in us. And don't you dare hold us accountable."
Much of the church I have known and participated in all my life has enthusiastically said, "Yes, this is who we are!" I had thought that truth was a major tenet of my religion. I was wrong. Maybe truth is defined only as what one believes in spite of reality.
I may also be wrong about the mark of the new Republicans. What defines today's Republican Party could well be not falsehood but cruelty.